First case of imported plasmodium ovale from iran

Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 264-266

  Nateghpour, Mehdi ^a   Makiani, Mahin Jamshidi ^b   Mohseni, Gholam ^c   Safari, Reza ^c   Hajjaran, Homa ^a   Ataei, Saeideh ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b GONABAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c HORMOZGAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; GENOMIC DNA; PRIMAQUINE; RNA 18S;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; BONE PAIN; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEVER; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IRAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PLASMODIUM OVALE MALARIA; RELAPSE; TREATMENT DURATION; TROPHOZOITE;

EID: 78249236204     PISSN: 02530716     EISSN: 17353688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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