Morphological features and differential counts of Plasmodium knowlesi parasites in naturally acquired human infections

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lee, Kim Sung ^a   Cox Singh, Janet ^a   Singh, Balbir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD STAIN; CHROMATIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FILM; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MALARIA; MALE; MEROZOITE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI INFECTION; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZONT; TROPHOZOITE; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65149103017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-73     Document Type: Article

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