A Case of imported Plasmodium malariae malaria

Annals of Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 229-233

  Hong, Yun Ji ^a   Yang, Sun Young ^b   Lee, Kyunghoon ^a   Kim, Taek Soo ^a   Kim, Hong Bin ^b   Park, Kyoung Un ^a,b   Song, Junghan ^a,b   Kim, Eui Chong ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

18S rRNA conventional PCR; 18S rRNA real time PCR; Chloroquine resistance; Late recrudescence; Malaria; Plasmodium malariae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861377716     PISSN: 22343806     EISSN: 22343814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3343/alm.2012.32.3.229     Document Type: Article

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