Malaria infection and morbidity in infants in relation to genetic polymorphisms in Tanzania

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 187-193

  Stirnadel, Heide A ^a   Stöckle, Marcel ^a   Felger, Ingrid ^a   Smith, Tom ^a   Tanner, Marcel ^a   Beck, Hans Peter ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Infants; Plasmodium falciparum malaria; Sickle cell trait; Tumour necrosis factor promotor polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH IMPACT; MALARIA; POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MALARIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; TANZANIA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; TANZANIA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0032918338     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.43381.x     Document Type: Article

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