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[No influence of season of transmission nor age of patients on the complexity and genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum infection in Cotonou, Benin].
Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique (1990) - 1 Jul 2001
Issifou S, Djikou S, Sanni A, Lekoulou F, Ntoumi F
Abstract excerpt
The aim of the present study was to determine the genetic diversity and allelic frequencies of the genes encoding for the merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP-1) and protein-2 (MSP-2) of P. falciparum collected from Beninese patients during the high and low transmission seasons in Cotonou, in South Benin. Sixty and twenty-four patients were sampled during the dry and wet seasons, respectively Parasite DNA was...
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