Plasmodium falciparum multiple infections in Mozambique, its relation to other malariological indices and to prospective risk of malaria morbidity

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-11

  Mayor, Alfredo ^a,b   Saute, Francisco ^a,c   Aponte, John J ^a,b   Almeda, Jesús ^a,b   Gómez Olivé, F Xavier ^a,b   Dgedge, Martinho ^d   Alonso, Pedro L ^a,b  

^a Ministérioda Saúde   (Mozambique)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAÚDE   (Mozambique)

^d Ministerio da Saude   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

Clinical malaria; Merozoite surface protein 2; Mozambique; Multiplicity of infection; Plasmodium falciparum; Premmunition; Prospective risk; RFLP PCR

Indexed keywords

MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 2;

MALARIA; MORBIDITY; PARASITE; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MOZAMBIQUE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERINFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOZAMBIQUE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH;

MOZAMBIQUE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037252002     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.00968.x     Document Type: Article

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