Resistance to antifolates in Plasmodium falciparum monitored by sequence analysis of dihydropteroate synthetase and dihydrofolate reductase alleles in a large number of field samples of diverse origins
- 1 November 1997
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
- Vol. 89 (2) , 161-177
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0166-6851(97)00114-x
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