Tracking malaria parasites in the eradication era

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 465-466

  Ferreira, Marcelo U ^a   Rodrigues, Priscila T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Eradication; Genotyping; Malaria; Microsatellites; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; HAPLOTYPE; MALARIA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ERADICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITES; PARASITOLOGY; SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STANDARD;

ERADICATION; GENOTYPING; MALARIA; MICROSATELLITES; SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84907964777     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2014.08.003     Document Type: Short Survey

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