Article
Amodiaquine resistance in Plasmodium berghei is associated with PbCRT His95Pro mutation, loss of chloroquine, artemisinin and primaquine sensitivity, and high transcript levels of key transporters
2018-06-06
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<h4>Background: </h4> The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has evolved drug evasion mechanisms to all available antimalarials. The combination of amodiaquine-artesunate is among the drug of choice for treatment of uncomplicated malaria. In this combination, a short-acting, artesunate is partnered with long-acting, amodiaquine for which resistance may emerge rapidly especially in high transmission sett...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 333986d5-ffe7-51fe-86ac-7272055c4db7
- DOI
- 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.11768.2
