Malaria - An overview

FEBS Journal

Volumn 274, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 4670-4679

  Tuteja, Renu ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebral malaria; Erythrocytes; Malaria life cycle; Malaria parasite; Mosquito; Parasite genome; Parasite transcriptome; Pathogenesis; Plasmodium falciparum; Red blood cells

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; HUMAN; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34548444241     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.05997.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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