Article
Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria.
Annual review of microbiology - 8 Sept 2020
Wicht Kathryn J, Mok Sachel, Fidock David A
Abstract excerpt
Understanding and controlling the spread of antimalarial resistance, particularly to artemisinin and its partner drugs, is a top priority. Plasmodium falciparum parasites resistant to chloroquine, amodiaquine, or piperaquine harbor mutations in the P. falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter (PfCRT), a transporter resident on the digestive vacuole membrane that in its variant forms can transport these...
Topics
- Antimalarials
- Artemisinins
- Chloroquine
- Drug Resistance
- Humans
- Malaria, Falciparum
- Membrane Transport Proteins
- Mutation
- Plasmodium falciparum
- Protozoan Proteins
- Quinolines
