Malaria transmission-blocking vaccines: the bonus of effective malaria control

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 792-795

  Sauerwein, Robert W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Malaria; Transmission; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE;

DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TARGETING; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALARIA VACCINES; PLASMODIUM;

EID: 34247528554     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.02.011     Document Type: Short Survey

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