The Role of Animal Models for Research on Severe Malaria

نویسندگان

  • Alister G. Craig
  • Georges E. Grau
  • Chris Janse
  • James W. Kazura
  • Dan Milner
  • John W. Barnwell
  • Gareth Turner
  • Jean Langhorne
چکیده

1 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2 Vascular Immunology Unit, Department of Pathology, Bosch Institute, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and La Jolla Infectious Disease Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America, 3 Leiden Malaria Research Group, Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands, 4 Center for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, 5 Blantyre Malaria Project, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, and The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 6 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 7 Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, United Kingdom, and Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, 8 Division of Parasitology, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

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دوره 8  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2012