Malaria in pregnant Cameroonian women: the effect of age and gravidity on submicroscopic and mixed-species infections and multiple parasite genotypes.

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Published in Am J Trop Med Hyg on March 01, 2005

Authors

Annie Walker-Abbey1, Rosine R T Djokam, Anna Eno, Rose F G Leke, Vincent P K Titanji, Josephine Fogako, Grace Sama, Lucy H Thuita, Eliza Beardslee, Georges Snounou, Ainong Zhou, Diane Wallace Taylor

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia 20057, USA.

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