Nature Medicine
4, 23 - 24 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0198-023
Chloroquine resistance—discovering the missing link?Andrew P. WatersDepartment of Parasitology, University of Leiden, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands email: WATERS@rullf2.LeidenUniv.nl A candidate gene, cg2, is implicated in resistance to chloroquine in Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites, but the mechanism of resistance remains unclear.
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