Orangutans not infected with Plasmodium vivax or P. cynomolgi, Indonesia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1657-1658

  Singh, Balbir ^a   Divis, Paul Cliff Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INDONESIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORANG UTAN; PLASMODIUM CYNOMOLGI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; APE DISEASES; INDONESIA; MALARIA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM CYNOMOLGI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PONGO; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 70349974269     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1510.090364     Document Type: Article

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