The prospect of malaria elimination in the Arabian Peninsula: A population genetic approach

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue , 2014, Pages 25-31

  Al Hamidhi, Salama ^a   Mahdy, Mohammed A K ^b,c   Idris, Mohamed Ahmed ^a   Bin Dajem, Saad M ^d   Al Sheikh, Adel Ali H ^e   Al Qahtani, Ahmed ^f   Al Hashami, Zainab ^a   Al Farsi, Hissa ^a   Al mekhlafi, Abdulsalam M ^c   Saif Ali, Riyadh ^g   Beja Pereira, Albano ^h   Babiker, Hamza A ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Yemen)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^d KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^f KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^g SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^h CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Arabian Peninsula; Genetic diversity; Plasmodium falciparum; Population structure; Saudi Arabia; Yemen

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FLOW; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; YEMEN; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; TRANSMISSION; HETEROZYGOSITY; IMPORT DISEASE; POPULATION SIZE;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SAUDI ARABIA; YEMEN;

EID: 84904316939     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2014.06.015     Document Type: Article

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