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Effect of iron supplementation and malaria prophylaxis in infants on Plasmodium falciparum genotypes and multiplicity of infection.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - 1 Feb 1999
Beck H P, Felger I, Vounatsou P, Hirt R, Tanner M, Alonso P, Menendez C
Abstract excerpt
During a randomized placebo-controlled trial of chemoprophylaxis against Plasmodium falciparum malaria and iron supplementation, in infants living under conditions of intense transmission, all samples of P. falciparum obtained from children aged 5 and 8 months were genotyped by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis for the msp2 locus. One hundred and six blood samples were...
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