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Drug resistance genes: pvcrt-o and pvmdr-1 polymorphism in patients from malaria endemic South Western Coastal Region of India

BACKGROUND: Malaria is highly prevalent in many parts of India and is mostly caused by the parasite species Plasmodium vivax followed by Plasmodium falciparum. Chloroquine (CQ) is the first-line treatment for blood stage P. vivax parasites, but cases of drug resistance to CQ have been reported from...

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Autores principales: Joy, Shiny, Mukhi, Benudhar, Ghosh, Susanta K., Achur, Rajeshwara N., Gowda, D. Channe, Surolia, Namita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5775544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29351800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-018-2188-6