Malaria, sexual development and transmission: Retrospect and prospect

Parasitology

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1427-1434

  Sinden, R E ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Malaria; Plasmodium spp; Transmission

Indexed keywords

8 AMINOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; ARTEMISINIC ACID;

ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEOMICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 70350570394     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182009990667     Document Type: Review

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