Duffy phenotype and plasmodium vivax infections in humans and apes, Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1704-1705

  Culleton, Richard Leighton ^a   Ferreira, Pedro Eduardo ^a,b,c  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY;

AFRICA; APE; BLOOD GROUP DUFFY SYSTEM; GORILLA; HUMAN; LETTER; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; APE DISEASES; DUFFY BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ERYTHROCYTES; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 84866535378     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1810.120120     Document Type: Letter

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