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Competitive release and facilitation of drug-resistant parasites after therapeutic chemotherapy in a...

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Competitive release and facilitation of drug-resistant parasites after therapeutic chemotherapy in a rodent malaria model

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Full title

Competitive release and facilitation of drug-resistant parasites after therapeutic chemotherapy in a rodent malaria model

Publisher

United States: National Academy of Sciences

Journal title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2007-12, Vol.104 (50), p.19914-19919

Language

English

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Publisher

United States: National Academy of Sciences

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Contents

Malaria infections frequently consist of mixtures of drug-resistant and drug-sensitive parasites. If crowding occurs, where clonal population densities are suppressed by the presence of coinfecting clones, removal of susceptible clones by drug treatment could allow resistant clones to expand into the newly vacated niche space within a host. Theoret...

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Full title

Competitive release and facilitation of drug-resistant parasites after therapeutic chemotherapy in a rodent malaria model

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_fao_agris_US201300837008

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_fao_agris_US201300837008

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ISSN

0027-8424

E-ISSN

1091-6490

DOI

10.1073/pnas.0707766104

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