Molecular epidemiology of Plasmodium species prevalent in Yemen based on 18 s rRNA

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Al Mekhlafi, Abdulsalam M Q ^a   Mahdy, Mohammed A K ^a,b   Azazy, Ahmed A ^b   Fong, Mun Yik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; YEMEN;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 78349231317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-110     Document Type: Article

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