Malaria: What can apes teach humans?

Future Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1157-1160

  Cox Singh, Janet ^a,b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

African ape; falciparum; knowlesi; Plasmodium; primate; reichenowi; zoonosis

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM GABONI; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM REICHENOWI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; APE DISEASES; HOMINIDAE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI;

PRIMATES;

EID: 77955969223     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.10.86     Document Type: Editorial

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