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Fitness of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in vitro.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Oct 2015
Hott Amanda, Tucker Matthew S, Casandra Debora, Sparks Kansas, Kyle Dennis E
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OBJECTIVES: Drug resistance confers a fitness advantage to parasites exposed to frequent drug pressure, yet these mutations also may incur a fitness cost. We assessed fitness advantages and costs of artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum in vitro to understand how drug resistance will spread and evolve in a competitive environment. METHODS: Genotyping of SNPs, drug susceptibility assays and copy number...
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