Malaria among the Jarawas, a primitive and isolated tribe on the Andaman islands, India

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 545-552

  Das, M K ^a   Joshi, H ^a   Verma, A ^a   Singh, S S ^b   Adak, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^b Gobind Ballab Pant Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FEVER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 24044449646     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485905X51418     Document Type: Article

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