Plasmodium knowlesi reinfection in human

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1314-1315

  Lau, Yee Ling ^a   Tan, Lian Huat ^b   Chin, Lit Chein ^a   Fong, Mun Yik ^a   Noraishah, Mydin Abdul Aziz ^a   Rohela, Mahmud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b Sunway Medical Centre   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; DOXYCYCLINE; MEFLOQUINE; QUININE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHILL; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEVER; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOLYSIS; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LETTER; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NAUSEA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITEMIA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REINFECTION; RIGOR; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHANOLAMINES; FLUORENES; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALAYSIA; MALE; MEFLOQUINE; MICROSCOPY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; QUININE; RECURRENCE;

EID: 79959877881     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1707.101295     Document Type: Letter

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