Avian and simian malaria: do they have a cancer connection?

Parasitology Research

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 839-845

  Ward, Martin ^a   Benelli, Giovanni ^b  

^a The Pain Clinic   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Carcinogenic infectious agents; Mosquitoes; Parasites; Simian malaria

Indexed keywords

AVIAN MALARIA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CARCINOGENICITY; CLONORCHIASIS; EARLY CANCER; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; MALARIA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MOSQUITO BITE; NONHUMAN; OPISTHORCHIASIS; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SIMIAN; SIMIAN MALARIA; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; BIRD; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOSQUITO; NEOPLASM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CULICIDAE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALARIA, AVIAN; NEOPLASMS; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI;

EID: 85007197374     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-016-5352-3     Document Type: Review

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