Molecular genomic approaches to infectious diseases in resource-limited settings

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Coloma, Josefina ^a,b   Harris, Eva ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Sustainable Sciences Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GENOMICS; INFECTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOMICS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INFECTION; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 70350471559     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000142     Document Type: Review

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