Plasmodium vivax malaria in duffy-negative individuals from Ethiopia

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 328-331

  Woldearegai, Tamirat Gebru ^a,b   Kremsner, Peter G ^b,c   Kun, Jürgen F J ^a   Mordmüller, Benjamin ^b,c  

^a HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

Author keywords

Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines; Ethiopia; Malaria; Microscopy; PCR; Plasmodium vivax

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; DUFFY ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; DUFFY BINDING PROTEIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 84882742687     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trt016     Document Type: Article

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