Monday, May 26, 2008

New Atovaquone-resistance mutations:

Josephine E. Siregar, Din Syafruddin, Hiroyuki Matsuoka, Kiyoshi Kita and Sangkot Marzuki
Mutation underlying resistance of Plasmodium berghei to atovaquone in the quinone-binding-domain 2 (Qo2) of the cytochrome b gene

Parasitology International Volume 57,229-232

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

These four mutations were already known from atovaquone resistant strains of other species- this is the first observation of these mutations in Plasmodium berghei.