Emergence of an unusual sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance pattern and a novel K540N mutation in dihydropteroate synthetase in Plasmodium falciparum isolates obtained from Car Nicobar Island, India, after the 2004 Tsunami.

Lumb, Vanshika

Emergence of an unusual sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance pattern and a novel K540N mutation in dihydropteroate synthetase in Plasmodium falciparum isolates obtained from Car Nicobar Island, India, after the 2004 Tsunami. [electronic resource] - The Journal of infectious diseases Apr 2009 - 1064-73 p. digital

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

0022-1899

10.1086/597206 doi


Alleles
Animals
Antimalarials--pharmacology
Catalytic Domain
Dihydropteroate Synthase--chemistry
Disasters
Drug Combinations
Drug Resistance
Geography
India--epidemiology
Membrane Transport Proteins--genetics
Models, Molecular
Mutation
Plasmodium falciparum--drug effects
Protein Conformation
Protozoan Proteins--genetics
Pyrimethamine--pharmacology
Sulfadoxine--pharmacology
Tetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase--genetics
Tidal Waves
Time Factors