Simulating within-vector generation of the malaria parasite diversity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Childs, Lauren M ^a   Prosper, Olivia F ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CELL DENSITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOSQUITO VECTOR; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPOROZOITE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CLASSIFICATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SPOROZOITES;

EID: 85019900290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177941     Document Type: Article

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