Monkey malaria kills four humans

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 200-204

  Galinski, Mary R ^a   Barnwell, John W ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; BLOOD SMEAR; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; MACACA; MALARIA; MALAYSIA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHORT SURVEY; SINGAPORE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALARIA; MALAYSIA; MONKEY DISEASES; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE; ZOONOSES;

PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; SIMIAE;

EID: 65349086078     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2009.02.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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