Risk of Plasmodium vivax malaria reintroduction in Uzbekistan: Genetic characterization of parasites and status of potential malaria vectors in the Surkhandarya region

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 585-592

  Severini, Carlo ^a   Menegon, Michela ^a   Di Luca, Marco ^a   Abdullaev, Iso ^b   Majori, Giancarlo ^a   Razakov, Shavkat A ^b   Gradoni, Luigi ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SAMARKAND STATE MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (Uzbekistan)

Author keywords

Anopheles; ITS2; Malaria; Plasmodium vivax; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES REINTRODUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUMMER; TAJIKISTAN; UZBEKISTAN; ZOOLOGY;

ANOPHELES HYRCANUS; ANOPHELES PULCHERRIMUS; ANOPHELES SUPERPICTUS; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 5144231466     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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