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Molecular epidemiology of drug resistance markers of Plasmodium falciparum in Yunnan Province, China.
Malaria journal - 28 Jul 2012
Huang Fang, Tang Linhua, Yang Henglin, Zhou Shuisen, Liu Hui, Li Junwei, Guo Shaohua
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The mutations in Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter (pfcrt), multidrug resistance 1 (pfmdr1), dihydrofolate reductase (pfdhfr), dihydropteroate synthase (pfdhps) and ATPase (pfatp6) genes were associated with anti-malaria drug resistance. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of polymorphisms in pfcrt, pfmdr1, pfdhfr, pfdhps and pfatp6 in Yunnan Province....
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