Genetic evidence of importation of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum to Guatemala from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 932-940

  Patel, Jaymin C ^a   Taylor, Steve M ^a   Juliao, Patricia C ^b   Parobek, Christian M ^a   Janko, Mark ^a   Gonzalez, Luis Demetrio ^c   Ortiz, Lucia ^d   Padilla, Norma ^d   Tshefu, Antoinette K ^e   Emch, Michael ^a   Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam ^b   Lindblade, Kim ^b   Meshnick, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Military Medical Center   (Guatemala)

^d Universidad de Guatemala   (Guatemala)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COORDINATE ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOLDIER; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL;

ANTIMALARIALS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TRAVEL;

EID: 84900988646     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2006.131204     Document Type: Article

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