Malaria: some considerations regarding parasite productivity

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 487-491

  Rosenberg, Ronald ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SPOROZOITE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; REPRODUCTION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 54349116450     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2008.07.009     Document Type: Article

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