Emergence of an Unusual Sulfadoxine‐Pyrimethamine Resistance Pattern and a Novel K540N Mutation in Dihydropteroate Synthetase inPlasmodium falciparumIsolates Obtained from Car Nicobar Island, India, after the 2004 Tsunami | Zendy

Vanshika Lumb | Zendy; Manoja Kumar Das | Zendy; Pooja Mittra | Zendy; Anwar Ahmed | Zendy; Manoj Kumar | Zendy; Punit Kaur | Zendy; Aditya Prasad Dash | Zendy; Shiv Shankar Singh | Zendy; Yagya D. Sharma | Zendy

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Emergence of an Unusual Sulfadoxine‐Pyrimethamine Resistance Pattern and a Novel K540N Mutation in Dihydropteroate Synthetase inPlasmodium falciparumIsolates Obtained from Car Nicobar Island, India, after the 2004 Tsunami

Author(s) -

Vanshika Lumb,

Manoja Kumar Das,

Pooja Mittra,

Anwar Ahmed,

Manoj Kumar,

Punit Kaur,

Aditya Prasad Dash,

Shiv Shankar Singh,

Yagya D. Sharma

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

the journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69

H-Index - 252

eISSN - 1537-6613

pISSN - 0022-1899

DOI - 10.1086/597206

Subject(s) - dihydropteroate synthase , sulfadoxine , plasmodium falciparum , sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine , biology , virology , pyrimethamine , population , malaria , drug resistance , antifolate , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , medicine , immunology , environmental health , antimetabolite , chemotherapy

Enormous amounts of drugs were used to contain the outbreak of infectious diseases in areas of India affected by the tsunami in December 2004. The impact of this drug use on the Plasmodium falciparum population needs to be investigated.

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