Questions over high frequency of mutant PfATP6 haplotypes in traveller isolates
A recent paper in Malaria Journal suggests that a high proportion of Plasmodium falciparum isolates found in travellers returning from a range of African countries carry the PfATP6 A623E S769N haplotype, and that this genotype is associated with artemether resistance. Such a finding would represent...
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Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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