Pairwise growth competitions identify relative fitness relationships among artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum field isolates

• Main Authors: Abigail R. Tirrell, Katelyn M. Vendrely, Lisa A. Checkley, Sage Z. Davis, Marina McDew-White, Ian H. Cheeseman, Ashley M. Vaughan, François H. Nosten, Timothy J.C. Anderson, Michael T. Ferdig
• Other Authors: Texas Biomedical Research Institute
• Format: Article
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/51028
• Institution: Mahidol University

© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Competitive outcomes between co-infecting malaria parasite lines can reveal fitness disparities in blood stage growth. Blood stage fitness costs often accompany the evolution of drug resistance, with the expectation that relatively fitter parasites will be more like...