Longitudinal assessment of Plasmodium falciparum var gene transcription in naturally infected asymptomatic children in Papua New Guinea

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 189, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1942-1951

  Kaestli, Mirjam ^a   Cortes, Alfred ^c   Lagog, Moses ^c   Ott, Michael ^b   Beck, Hans Peter ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 2442695102     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/383250     Document Type: Article

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