High prevalence of malaria infection in Amazonas State, Venezuela

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 79-85

  Rodulfo, Hectorina ^a   De Donato, Marcos ^a   Quijada, Isaurea ^a   Peña, Ada ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE   (Venezuela)

^b Sección de Malariologia   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Malaria; P. falciparum; P. vivax; PCR

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORBIDITY; MOSQUITO; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RANDOM SAMPLE; VENEZUELA;

EID: 34248395527     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0036-46652007000200003     Document Type: Article

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