Characterizing the role of Cyp19B as a contributing factor to artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum

• Main Author: Toh, Victoria Le Yi
• Other Authors: Zbynek Bozdech
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160997
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) is a protozoan parasite with the highest rates of mortality and most prevalent on the African continent. Given the emergence of antimalarial drug resistance in the recent years, the exact mechanisms of how the mutations or upregulation in the parasite increased...