The population structure of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax during an epidemic of malaria in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 459-464

  Mueller, Ivo ^a,c   Kaiok, Japalis ^b,c   Reeder, John C ^a,c   Cortés, Alfred ^a,c  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^b Health Services   (Papua New Guinea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036859039     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2002.67.459     Document Type: Article

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