High incidence of asymptomatic malara infections in a birth cohort of children less than one year of age in Ghana, detected by multicopy gene polymerase chain reaction

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-123

  Wagner, Gillian ^a   Koram, Kwadwo ^b   McGuinness, David ^a   Bennett, Steve ^c   Nkrumah, Francis ^b   Riley, Eleanor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MATERNAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; NEWBORN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 0031775938     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1998.59.115     Document Type: Article

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