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Fitness Costs and the Rapid Spread of kelch13-C580Y Substitutions Conferring Artemisinin Resistance.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Sept 2018
Nair Shalini, Li Xue, Arya Grace A, McDew-White Marina, Ferrari Marco, Nosten François, Anderson Tim J C
Abstract excerpt
Fitness costs are key determinants of whether drug resistance alleles establish and how fast they spread within populations. More than 125 different kelch13 alleles, each containing a different amino acid substitution, have arisen in Southeast Asian malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) populations under artemisinin selection over the past 15 years in a dramatic example of a soft selective event. However, just...
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