Detectability of Plasmodium falciparum clones

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bretscher, Michael T ^a,b   Valsangiacomo, Francesca ^a,b   Owusu Agyei, Seth ^c   Penny, Melissa A ^a,b   Felger, Ingrid ^a,b   Smith, Tom ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c KINTAMPO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 2; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 2, PLASMODIUM; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HOST; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PERIODICITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; ADOLESCENT; BIODIVERSITY; BLOOD; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; GENETICS; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BIODIVERSITY; BLOOD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955627946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-234     Document Type: Article

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