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High prevalence of pfcrt K76t mutants among Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Sabah, Malaysia.
The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health - 1 Nov 2011
Norahmad Nor Azrina, Abdullah Noor Rain, Yaccob Norhayati, Jelip Jenarun, Dony Jiloris F, Ruslan Khairul Faiz, Sulaiman Lokman Hakim, Sidek Hasidah Mohd, Noedl Harald, Ismail Zakiah
Abstract excerpt
Chloroquine (CQ) remains the first line drug for the prevention and treatment of malaria in Malaysia in spite of the fact that resistance to CQ has been observed in Malaysia since the 1960s. CQ-resistance is associated with various mutations in pfcrt, which encodes a putative transporter located...
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