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Malaria Research and Treatment
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 538481, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/538481
Research Article
In Vitro Chloroquine Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Isolates from Tertiary Care Hospital
Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202001, India
Received 27 May 2012; Revised 3 August 2012; Accepted 29 August 2012
Academic Editor: Neena Valecha
Copyright © 2012 Fatima Shujatullah et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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