Adaptive evolution and fixation of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum genotypes in pregnancy-associated malaria: 9-year results from the QuEERPAM study

Steve M Taylor; Alejandro Antonia; Gaoqian Feng; Victor Mwapasa; Ebbie Chaluluka; Malcolm Molyneux; Feiko O ter Kuile; Stephen J Rogerson; Steven R Meshnick

Journal article

Adaptive evolution and fixation of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum genotypes in pregnancy-associated malaria: 9-year results from the QuEERPAM study

Steve M Taylor, Alejandro Antonia, Gaoqian Feng, Victor Mwapasa, Ebbie Chaluluka, Malcolm Molyneux, Feiko O ter Kuile, Stephen J Rogerson, Steven R Meshnick

Infection Genetics and Evolution | ELSEVIER | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.11.006

University of Melbourne Researchers

Gaoqian Feng Author Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital

Stephen Rogerson Author Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital

Grants

Awarded by NIH

Awarded by NIH-FIC

Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium (MiP), which is funded through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (to F.O.tK.). Sample collection was funded by a Career Development Fellowship and a Senior Overseas Biomedical Research Fellowship awarded by the Wellcome Trust (to S.J.R.) and by Grants from NIH (#AI 49084), NIH-FIC (#5 D43 TW00908), and the Center for AIDS Research at the University North Carolina (to S.R.M.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.