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Does the drug sensitivity of malaria parasites depend on their virulence?

BACKGROUND: Chemotherapy can prompt the evolution of classical drug resistance, but selection can also favour other parasite traits that confer a survival advantage in the presence of drugs. The experiments reported here test the hypothesis that sub-optimal drug treatment of malaria parasites might...

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Autores principales: Schneider, Petra, Chan, Brian HK, Reece, Sarah E, Read, Andrew F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19087299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-7-257