Determinants of malaria-mosquito specificity

Parasitology Today

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 297-301

  Billingsley, Peter F ^a   Sinden, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANOPHELES; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0030764554     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(97)01094-6     Document Type: Review

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