Stepwise acquisition of pyrimethamine resistance in the malaria parasite.

The spread of high-level pyrimethamine resistance in Africa threatens to curtail the therapeutic lifetime of antifolate antimalarials. We studied the possible evolutionary pathways in the evolution of pyrimethamine resistance using an approach in which all possible mutational intermediates were crea...

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Main Authors: Lozovsky, E, Chookajorn, T, Brown, K, Imwong, M, Shaw, P, Kamchonwongpaisan, S, Neafsey, D, Weinreich, D, Hartl, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2009