Article
Distribution of drug resistance genotypes in Plasmodium falciparum in an area of limited parasite diversity in Saudi Arabia.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 May 2012
Bin Dajem Saad M, Al-Farsi Hissa M, Al-Hashami Zainab S, Al-Sheikh Adel Ali H, Al-Qahtani Ahmed, Babiker Hamza A
Abstract excerpt
Two hundred and three Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Jazan area, southwest Saudi Arabia, were typed for Pfcrt, Pfmdr1, dhps, and dhfr mutations associated with resistance to chloroquine, mefloquine, halofantrine, artemisinin, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, and the neutral polymorphic gene Pfg377...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Antimalarials
- Artemisinins
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Chloroquine
- Drug Combinations
- Drug Resistance
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Mefloquine
- Membrane Transport Proteins