Stable patterns of allelic diversity at the Merozoite Surface Protein-1 locus of Plasmodium falciparum in clinical isolates from Southern Vietnam

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 131-136

  Ferreira, Marcelo U ^a,e   Liu, Qing ^a   Zhou, Mian ^a   Kimura, Masatsugu ^b   Kaneko, Osamu ^b,f   Van Thien, Huynh ^c   Isomura, Shin ^a   Tanabe, Kazuyuki ^d   Kawamoto, Fumihiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Lam Dong Provincial Hospital II   (Viet Nam)

^d OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Malaria; Molecular epidemiology; Population genetics of malaria parasites

Indexed keywords

GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; POPULATION GENETICS; VIET NAM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0031920398     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1998.tb05080.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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