Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

A broad analysis of resistance development in the malaria parasite

  • Victoria C. Corey,
  • Amanda K. Lukens,
  • Eva S. Istvan,
  • Marcus C. S. Lee,
  • Virginia Franco,
  • Pamela Magistrado,
  • Olivia Coburn-Flynn,
  • Tomoyo Sakata-Kato,
  • Olivia Fuchs,
  • Nina F. Gnädig,
  • Greg Goldgof,
  • Maria Linares,
  • Maria G. Gomez-Lorenzo,
  • Cristina De Cózar,
  • Maria Jose Lafuente-Monasterio,
  • Sara Prats,
  • Stephan Meister,
  • Olga Tanaseichuk,
  • Melanie Wree,
  • Yingyao Zhou,
  • Paul A. Willis,
  • Francisco-Javier Gamo,
  • Daniel E. Goldberg,
  • David A. Fidock,
  • Dyann F. Wirth,
  • Elizabeth A. Winzeler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11901
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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It is unclear whether new antimalarial compounds may rapidly lose effectiveness in the field because of parasite resistance. Here, Corey et al.investigate the acquisition of drug resistance and the extent to which common resistance mechanisms decrease susceptibility to a diverse set of 50 antimalarial compounds.