Plasmodium ovale infections detected by PCR assay in Lao PDR

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 620-622

  Toma, Hiromu ^a   Kobayashi, Jun ^a   Vannachone, Bouakham ^b   Arakawa, Takeshi ^a   Sato, Yoshiya ^a   Nambanya, Simone ^b   Manivong, Khemphavanh ^c   Inthakone, Souliya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b Centre of Malariology   (Laos)

^c Khammouane Provincial Health Office   (Laos)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAOS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; LAOS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033288974     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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