Molecular evidence for the involvement of Anopheles nivipes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the transmission of Plasmodium falciparum in north-eastern India

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 331-336

  Bhattacharyya, D R ^a   Prakash, A ^a   Sarma, N P ^a   Mohapatra, P K ^a   Singh, S ^a   Sarma, D K ^a   Kalita, M C ^b   Mahanta, J ^a  

^a REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b GAUHATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 18S; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES NIVIPES; ANOPHELES PHILIPPINENSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INDIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANOPHELES NIVIPES; ANOPHELES PHILIPPINENSIS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; NIVIPES SPECIES COMPLEX; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 77954699138     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485910X12743554759948     Document Type: Article

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