Questions over high frequency of mutant PfATP6 haplotypes in traveller isolates

• Published in: Malaria Journal
• Main Authors: Woodrow Charles J, Gardner Kate B, Bustamante Leyla Y
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2012
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Traveller
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-186; https://doaj.org/article/e870403b95584a36a121f8ff90546159

Abstract A recent paper in Malaria Journal suggests that a high proportion of Plasmodium falciparum isolates found in travellers returning from a range of African countries carry the PfATP6 A623E S769N haplotype, and that this genotype is associated with artemether resistance. Such a finding would r...