Genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum in Bolifamba, on the slopes of Mount Cameroon: Influence of MSP1 allelic variants on symptomatic malaria and anaemia

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-33

  Anong, D N ^a   Nkuo Akenji, T ^a   Fru Cho, J ^a   Amambua Ngwa, A ^a   Titanji, V P K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 77949474137     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485910X12607012373876     Document Type: Article

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