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Complexity of plasmodium falciparum clinical samples from Uganda during short-term culture.
(University of Chicago Press, 2008-08-22)
We cultured Plasmodium falciparum parasites from 98 Ugandan children with malaria and determined the complexity of infection (COI) on the basis of msp-2 polymorphisms daily for 9 days. The mean COI decreased during culture ...
Selection of plasmodium falciparum pfmdr1 Alleles following therapy with artemether-lumefantrine in an area of Uganda where malaria is highly endemic
(American Society for Microbiology, 2006-03-08)
Polymorphisms in the Plasmodium falciparum pfmdr1 gene were assayed in pretreatment samples and in samples from patients reinfected following therapy with artemether-lumefantrine. The pfmdr1 alleles 86N,184F, and 1246D ...
Complexity of plasmodium falciparum infections and antimalarial drug efficacy at 7 sites in Uganda.
(University of Chicago Press, 2006-03-13)
Malaria infections in Africa frequently include multiple parasite strains.We examined the relationship between the number of infecting Plasmodium falciparum strains and the responses to 3 different combination therapies ...