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Restricted | Distribution of Drug Resistance Genotypes in Plasmodium falciparum in an Area of Limited Parasite Diversity in Saudi Arabia

Submitted by patrick sampao on May 3, 2012 - 13:59
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Saad M. Bin Dajem, Hissa M. Al-Farsi, Zainab S. Al-Hashami, Adel Ali H. Al-Sheikh, Ahmed Al-Qahtani and Hamza A. Babiker
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Am J Trop Med Hyg 2012 86:782-788
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MalariaWorldTwo hundred and three Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Jazan area, southwest Saudi Arabia, were typed for Pfcrt, Pfmdr1, dhps, and dhfr mutations associated with resistance to chloroquine, mefloquine, halofantrine, artemisinin, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, and the neutral polymorphic gene Pfg377.

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Detecting mutations in PfCRT and PfMDR1 genes among Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Saudi Arabia by pyrosequencing

Submitted by Kabogo on July 26, 2011 - 07:16
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Saad M. Bin Dajem, Adel Ali H. Al-Sheikh, Marie Fe Bohol, Mohammad Alhawi, Mohammed N. Al-Ahdal & Ahmed Al-Qahtani
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Parasitology Research, Volume 109, Number 2, 291-296
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The emergence of chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum is a significant public health problem where malaria is endemic.

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In Vitro activities of plant extracts from Saudi Arabia against malaria, leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness and Chagas disease

Submitted by Kabogo on August 30, 2010 - 14:18
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Essam Abdel-Sattar, Louis Maes and Maha Mahmoud Salama
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Phytotherapy Research Volume 24, Issue 9, pages 1322–1328, September 2010
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The in vitro activity of the methanol extracts of 51 plants randomly collected from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and some of their fractions (petroleum ether, chloroform, ethyl acetate and aqueous) were evaluated against Plasmodium falciparum, Trypanosoma brucei brucei, T. cruzi and Leishmania infantum, as well as toxicity against MRC-5 fibroblast cells.

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