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dihydropteroic acid
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di·hy·dro·pte·ro·ic acid (d-hdr-t-rk)
n.
An intermediate formed during the biosynthesis of folic acid; its formation is inhibited by sulfonamides.


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Plasmodium falciparum: detection of polymorphisms in the dihydrofolate reductase and dihydropteroate synthetase genes by PCR and restriction digestion.
For our study, we think that genotyping analysis of the mtLSU rRNA gene together with the dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) gene provided sufficient epidemiologic information because this strategy allows identification of 24 different combinations of genotypes.
DNA: the mitochondrial large subunit rRNA (mtLSU-rRNA) gene and the gene encoding for dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS).
 
 
 
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