Parasites resistant to the antimalarial atovaquone fail to transmit by mosquitoes

Resistance to the antimalarial drug atovaquone might prove to be this parasite's weak spot. Resistance develops rapidly via mutations in the drug's target: the parasite's mitochondrial cytochrome b complex. Goodman et al. have discovered that although resistant Plasmodium berghei para...
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Christopher D Goodman [verfasserIn]

Josephine E Siregar

Vanessa Mollard

Joel Vega-Rodríguez

Din Syafruddin

Hiroyuki Matsuoka

Motomichi Matsuzaki

Tomoko Toyama

Angelika Sturm

Anton Cozijnsen

Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

Kiyoshi Kita

Sangkot Marzuki

Geoffrey I McFadden

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Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2016

Rechteinformationen:

Nutzungsrecht: Copyright © 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Schlagwörter:

Parasites

Malaria

Mosquitoes

Antiretroviral drugs

Disease transmission

Cytochromes b - genetics

Antimalarials - therapeutic use

Plasmodium berghei - drug effects

Malaria - drug therapy

Plasmodium berghei - genetics

Atovaquone - pharmacology

Malaria - parasitology

Malaria - transmission

Antimalarials - pharmacology

Mitochondria - genetics

Plasmodium berghei - growth & development

Genes, Mitochondrial - genetics

Anopheles - parasitology

Atovaquone - therapeutic use

Life Cycle Stages - drug effects

Drug Resistance - genetics

Life Cycle Stages - genetics

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: Science - Washington, DC : AAAS, American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, 1883, 352(2016), 6283, Seite 349

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:352 ; year:2016 ; number:6283 ; pages:349

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DOI / URN:

10.1126/science.aad9279

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OLC1975103262

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