Article
Different genetic characteristics of Plasmodium falciparum isolates collected during successive clinical malaria episodes in Senegalese children.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 Jun 1996
Contamin H, Fandeur T, Rogier C, Bonnefoy S, Konate L, Trape J F, Mercereau-Puijalon O
Abstract excerpt
A narrow epidemiologic survey was conducted during a four-month period of intense malaria transmission in Dielmo, a holoendemic Senegalese village. Longitudinal clinical and parasitologic follow-up indicate that clinical malaria episodes always occurred after an abrupt increase in parasite densit...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- DNA, Protozoan
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Infant
- Longitudinal Studies
- Malaria, Falciparum
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Plasmodium falciparum
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Senegal