Intensity of malaria transmission and the evolution of drug resistance.

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Summary

It is argued that the evolution of resistance is likely to be a two-stage process: mutations encoding drug tolerance preceding those encoding resistance, with the most likely scenarios are that resistance evolves faster in areas of high transmission if encoded by a single gene but if encoding by two or more genes it evolves fastest in Areas of high or low transmission.

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review
Published
2005-06-01
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Keywords

Transmission (telecommunications), Malaria, Drug resistance, Biology, Genetics

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