pfmdr1 Amplification Associated with Clinical Resistance to Mefloquine in West Africa: Implications for Efficacy of Artemisinin Combination Therapies

We describe here a clinical failure in the treatment with mefloquine of acute falciparum malaria contracted in Africa and associated with in vitro mefloquine resistance and pfmdr1 copy number amplification. This case raises the question of the presence and the evolution of this genotype in Africa, w...

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Main Authors: Witkowski, Benoit, Iriart, Xavier, Soh, Patrice Njomnang, Menard, Sandie, Alvarez, Muriel, Naneix-Laroche, Veronique, Marchou, Bruno, Magnaval, Jean-François, Benoit-Vical, Françoise, Berry, Antoine
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2010
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Case Reports
Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2953132/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20668121
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01057-10
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