Molecular analysis of Plasmodium ovale variants

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1235-1240

  Win, Thin Thida ^a   Jalloh, Amadu ^a   Tantular, Indah Setyawati ^b   Tsuboi, Takafumi ^c   Ferreira, Marcelo Urbano ^d   Kimura, Masatsugu ^e   Kawamoto, Fumihiko ^a,f  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AIRLANGGA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CAMEROON; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; RNA GENE; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 3042820208     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1007.030411     Document Type: Article

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