Consider it a case of mistaken identity, but one with health implications for hundreds of millions of people. Three years ago, researchers announced they had found a gene that, when mutated, enables the parasite that causes the majority of the world’s malaria to shrug off the widely used drug chloroquine (SN: 11/29/97, p. 340: http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc97/11_29_97/fob1.htm).
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