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SUBMITTER: Tukwasibwe S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4162000 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tukwasibwe Stephen S Mugenyi Levi L Mbogo George W GW Nankoberanyi Sheila S Maiteki-Sebuguzi Catherine C Joloba Moses L ML Nsobya Samuel L SL Staedke Sarah G SG Rosenthal Philip J PJ
The Journal of infectious diseases 20140119 1
We explored associations between Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance-mediating polymorphisms and clinical presentations in parasitemic children enrolled in a cross-sectional survey in Tororo, Uganda, using a retrospective case-control design. All 243 febrile children (cases) and 243 randomly selected asymptomatic children (controls) were included. In a multivariate analysis adjusting for age, complexity of infection, and parasite density, the prevalence of wild-type genotypes was significantly ...[more]