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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2015

Molecular characterization of the cytochrome b gene and in vitro atovaquone susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Kenya.

Luicer A Ingasia, Hoseah M Akala, Mabel O Imbuga, Benjamin H Opot, Fredrick L Eyase, Jacob D Johnson, Wallace D Bulimo, Edwin Kamau

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Decoding the Molecular Effects of Atovaquone Linked Resistant Mutations onInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  3. Selection ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Luicer A IngasiaDepartment of Emerging Infectious Diseases-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DEID-GEIS) Program, U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya (USAMRU-K), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)-Walter Reed Project, Kisumu, Kenya.
Hoseah M AkalaDepartment of Emerging Infectious Diseases-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DEID-GEIS) Program, U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya (USAMRU-K), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)-Walter Reed Project, Kisumu, Kenya.
Mabel O ImbugaDepartment of Biochemistry, College of Health Sciences, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya.
Benjamin H OpotDepartment of Emerging Infectious Diseases-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DEID-GEIS) Program, U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya (USAMRU-K), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)-Walter Reed Project, Kisumu, Kenya.
Fredrick L EyaseDepartment of Emerging Infectious Diseases-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DEID-GEIS) Program, U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya (USAMRU-K), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)-Walter Reed Project, Kisumu, Kenya.
Jacob D JohnsonDepartment of Emerging Infectious Diseases-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DEID-GEIS) Program, U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya (USAMRU-K), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)-Walter Reed Project, Kisumu, Kenya.
Wallace D BulimoDepartment of Emerging Infectious Diseases-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DEID-GEIS) Program, U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya (USAMRU-K), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)-Walter Reed Project, Kisumu, Kenya.
Edwin KamauDepartment of Emerging Infectious Diseases-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DEID-GEIS) Program, U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya (USAMRU-K), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)-Walter Reed Project, Kisumu, Kenya edwin.kamau.mil@mail.mil.
United States Army Medical Research Directorate - Africa · KEKenya Medical Research Institute · KEJomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology · KE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prevalence of a genetic polymorphism(s) at codon 268 in the cytochrome b gene, which is associated with failure of atovaquone-proguanil treatment, was analyzed in 227 Plasmodium falciparum parasites from western Kenya. The prevalence of the wild-type allele was 63%, and that of the Y268S (denoting a Y-to-S change at position 268) mutant allele was 2%. There were no pure Y268C or Y268N mutant alleles, only mixtures of a mutant allele(s) with the wild type. There was a correlation between parasite 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) and parasite genetic polymorphism; mutant alleles had higher IC50s than the wild type.

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AllelesAntimalarialsAtovaquoneCodonCytochromes bDNA, ProtozoanDrug CombinationsKenyaMalaria, FalciparumMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMutationPlasmodium falciparumPolymorphism, GeneticProguanilProtozoan ProteinsAntimalarialsAtovaquoneatovaquone, proguanil drug combinationCodonCytochromes bDNA, ProtozoanDrug CombinationsProguanilProtozoan Proteins

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PMID25583715
PMCPMC4325819
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