High sensitivity detection of Plasmodium species reveals positive correlations between infections of different species, shifts in age distribution and reduced local variation in Papua New Guinea

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Mueller, Ivo ^a   Widmer, Simone ^b   Michel, Daniela ^b   Maraga, Seri ^a   McNamara, David T ^c   Kiniboro, Benson ^a   Sie, Albert ^a   Smith, Thomas A ^b   Zimmerman, Peter A ^c  

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

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BED NET; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGASE DETECTION REACTION FLUORECENT MICROSPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH SURVEY; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MICROSPHERE; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSPHERES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62949104698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-41     Document Type: Article

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