A Large Plasmodium vivax Reservoir and Little Population Structure in the South Pacific

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Koepfli, Cristian ^a,b,e   Timinao, Lincoln ^a,c   Antao, Tiago ^d   Barry, Alyssa E ^e,f   Siba, Peter ^c   Mueller, Ivo ^e,f,g   Felger, Ingrid ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SOLOMON ISLANDS; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MELANESIA; PARASITOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

GENETIC MARKER; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MELANESIA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84879145135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066041     Document Type: Article

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