Article
Population structure of Plasmodium falciparum isolates during an epidemic in southern Mauritania.
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH - 1 Oct 2001
Jordan S, Jelinek T, Aida A O, Peyerl-Hoffmann G, Heuschkel C, el Valy A O, Christophel E M
Abstract excerpt
While the population structure of Plasmodium falciparum is well analysed in selected areas with high malaria endemicity in East and West Africa, only limited data are available for low endemicity regions bordering the Saharan desert. This is one of the first studies for the Sahel, where atypically strong rainfalls in 1998 and 1999 led to a severe outbreak of falciparum malaria in south-east Mauritania. During a...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Alleles
- Animals
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Bacterial Proteins
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- DNA, Protozoan
- Disease Outbreaks
