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Multiple Plasmodium falciparum infections in Tanzanian infants.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - 1 Feb 1999
Felger I, Smith T, Edoh D, Kitua A, Alonso P, Tanner M, Beck H P
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Paired blood samples from 99 Tanzanian infants were analysed to examine the infection dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum during the first year of life. Infecting parasites were genotyped by polymerase chain reaction amplification of the polymorphic gene for the merozoite surface protein 2 and subsequent analysis according to the resulting restriction fragment length polymorphism pattern. The same samples served as...
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