Chitotriosidase deficiency is not associated with human hookworm infection in a Papua New Guinean population

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 743-747

  Hall, Andrew J ^a   Quinnell, Rupert J ^b   Raiko, Andrew ^c   Lagog, Moses ^c   Siba, Peter ^c   Morroll, Shaun ^a   Falcone, Franco H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

CHIT1 mutation; Chitotriosidase; Malaria; Necator americanus; Papua New Guinea

Indexed keywords

CHITOTRIOSIDASE;

AFRICA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; FILARIASIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HEXOSAMINIDASES; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; NECATOR AMERICANUS; VERMES;

EID: 35448994716     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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