Plasmodium knowlesi from archival blood films: Further evidence that human infections are widely distributed and not newly emergent in Malaysian Borneo

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1125-1128

  Lee, Kim Sung ^a   Cox Singh, Janet ^a   Brooke, George ^b   Matusop, Asmad ^b   Singh, Balbir ^a  

^a Malaria Research Centre   (Malaysia)

^b Sarawak Health Department   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Archival blood films; Epidemiology; Malaria; Nested PCR; Plasmodium knowlesi

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

BLOOD; DNA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FILM; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MALARIA; MORPHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BORNEO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DNA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANIMALS; BORNEO; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

ASIA; BORNEO; EAST MALAYSIA; EURASIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; MALAYSIA; SARAWAK; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE;

EID: 67649781748     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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