Malaria dispersal among islands: Human mediated Plasmodium falciparum gene flow in Vanuatu, Melanesia

Acta Tropica

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-185

  Lum, J Koji ^a,d   Kaneko, Akira ^a,c   Tanabe, Kazuyuki ^b   Takahashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Björkman, Anders ^c   Kobayakawa, Takatoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene flow; Human movement; mtDNA control region; Plasmodium falciparum; Remote Oceania; Vanuatu

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; DRUG RESISTANCE; MALARIA; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DISTANCE; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MELANESIA; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MALARIA; MELANESIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; VANUATU;

OCEANIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 1442334990     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2003.09.022     Document Type: Article

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