Novel Plasmodium falciparum clones and rising clone multiplicities are associated with the increase in malaria morbidity in Ghanaian children during the transition into the high transmission season

Parasitology

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 113-123

  Ofosu Okyere, A ^a   Mackinnon, M J ^b   Sowa, M P K ^b   Koram, K A ^a   Nkrumah, F ^a   Osei, Y D ^c   Hill, W G ^b   Wilson, M D ^a   Arnot, D E ^b  

^a University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Clone multiplicity; Ghana; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Seasonal transmission; Virulence

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORBIDITY; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034919442     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182001008162     Document Type: Article

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