Case report: Monkey malaria in humans: A diagnostic dilemma with conflicting laboratory data

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 927-928

  Ong, Catherine W M ^a   Shir, Ying Lee ^a   Wee, Hong Koh ^b   Ooi, Eng Eong ^b   Tambyah, Paul A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^b Defence Medical and Environmental Research Institute   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; PRIMAQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI MALARIA; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI;

PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHLOROQUINE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMAQUINE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 66949165183     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.80.927     Document Type: Article

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