Progressive Increase in Point Mutations Associated with Chloroquine Resistance inPlasmodium falciparumIsolates from India
The Journal of Infectious Diseases2006Vol. 193(9), pp. 1304–1312
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Pooja Mittra, Sumiti Vinayak, Hina Chandawat, Manoja Kumar Das, Neeru Singh, Sukla Biswas, Vas Dev, Ashwani Kumar, Musharraf A. Ansari, Yagya D. Sharma
Abstract
There was a temporal increase in the number of pfcrt and pfmdr1 2-loci mutations, and this led to the higher level of chloroquine resistance. This is a cause for concern for the antimalarial drug policy in India.
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