Seasonal variation and high multiplicity of first Plasmodium falciparum infections in children from a holoendemic area in Ghana, West Africa.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01618.x

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Seasonal variation and high multiplicity of first Plasmodium falciparum infections in children from a holoendemic area in Ghana, West Africa.

Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH - 1 May 2006

Kobbe Robin, Neuhoff Rieke, Marks Florian, Adjei Samuel, Langefeld Iris, von Reden Claudia, Adjei Ohene, Meyer Christian G, May Jürgen

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OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence and multiplicity of Plasmodium falciparum infections in Ghanaian infants. METHOD: In an epidemiological study in an area holoendemic for malaria in Ghana, the prevalence and multiplicity of P. falciparum infections (MOI) were assessed in 1069 three month-old infants by typing of the genes encoding the merozoite surface proteins 1 and 2 (msp-1, msp-2) over a recruitment period...

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Animals
Antigens, Protozoan
Biodiversity
DNA, Protozoan
Endemic Diseases
Genotype
Ghana
Humans
Infant
Malaria, Falciparum
Merozoite Surface Protein 1
Plasmodium falciparum
Polymerase Chain Reaction

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PMID: 16640613
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01618.x

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