The Dynamics of Natural Plasmodium falciparum Infections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Felger, Ingrid ^a,b   Maire, Martin ^a,b   Bretscher, Michael T ^a,b,e   Falk, Nicole ^a,b   Tiaden, André ^a,b,d   Sama, Wilson ^a,b   Beck, Hans Peter ^a,b   Owusu Agyei, Seth ^a,c   Smith, Thomas A ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c KINTAMPO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CHILD; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MSP 2 GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84866518208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045542     Document Type: Article

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