Plasmodium vivax: Favored gene frequencies of the merozoite surface protein-1 and the multiplicity of infection in a malaria endemic region

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-18

  Kolakovich, Kathleen A ^a   Ssengoba, Anisa ^a   Wojcik, Kimberly ^a   Tsuboi, Takafumi ^a,c   Al Yaman, Fadwa ^b   Alpers, Michael ^b   Adams, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Plasmodium vivax

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERTIAN MALARIA;

EID: 0030176296     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0044     Document Type: Article

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