Investigation of Copy Number Variations (CNVs) in South-East Asia (SEA) Plasmodium falciparum isolates and association with artemisinin resistance.

• Main Author: Guo, Weiliang.
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Microbiology::Drug Resistance
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49291
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Malaria is a global infectious disease cause by a parasite of the Plasmodium genus. Anti-malarial drug resistance has been rising and there is an urgent need to understand the mechanisms behind drug resistance. Copy Number Variations (CNVs) have been shown to contribute to genetic variations and ass...