Temporal trends of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) drug-resistance molecular markers in Plasmodium falciparum parasites from pregnant women in western Kenya

BACKGROUND: Resistance to sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) in Plasmodium falciparum parasites is associated with mutations in the dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr) and dihydropteroate synthase (dhps) genes and has spread worldwide. SP remains the recommended drug for intermittent preventive treatment fo...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Iriemenam, Nnaemeka C, Shah, Monica, Gatei, Wangeci, van Eijk, Anna M, Ayisi, John, Kariuki, Simon, Vanden Eng, Jodi, Owino, Simon O, Lal, Ashima A, Omosun, Yusuf O, Otieno, Kephas, Desai, Meghna, ter Kuile, Feiko O, Nahlen, Bernard, Moore, Julie, Hamel, Mary J, Ouma, Peter, Slutsker, Laurence, Shi, Ya Ping
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: BioMed Central 2012
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3390272/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22540158
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-134
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