Human malaria parasites: Are we ready for a new species?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 201, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1453-1454

  Su, Xin Zhuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA; NEW RECORD (SPECIES); NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; GENETIC SPECIATION; HUMANS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM OVALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77951884025     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652238     Document Type: Note

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