A large focus of naturally acquired Plasmodium knowlesi infections in human beings

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Volumn 363, Issue 9414, 2004, Pages 1017-1024

  Singh, Balbir ^a   Sung, Lee Kim ^a   Matusop, Asmad ^b   Radhakrishnan, Anand ^a   Shamsul, Sunita S G ^a   Cox Singh, Janet ^a   Thomas, Alan ^c   Conway, David J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^b Sarawak Health Department   (Malaysia)

^c BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; DNA; PRIMAQUINE; QUININE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DNA SEQUENCE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACACA; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONKEY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; SPOROZOITE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 1642588230     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15836-4     Document Type: Article

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