Genetic markers of resistance to pyrimethamine and sulfonamides in Plasmodium falciparum parasites compared with the resistance patterns in isolates of Escherichia coli from the same children in Guinea-Bissau
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- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Vol. 9 (1) , 171-177
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01164.x
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