Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 94, Issue 3 , Pages 256-257 , May 2000

Mixed-species malaria infections in the human population of São Tomé island, West Africa

  • J. Pinto

      Affiliations

    • Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais, Lisboa, Portugal
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  • C.A. Sousa

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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  • V. Gil

      Affiliations

    • Centro Nacional de Endemias, Ministério de Saúde, São Tomé, República Democrática de São Tomé e Principe, Lisboa, Portugal
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  • L. Gonçalves

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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  • D. Lopes

      Affiliations

    • Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais, Lisboa, Portugal
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  • V.E. do Rosário

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Virgílio E. do Rosário, Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais/IHMT, Rua da Junqueira 96, 1349-008, Lisbon, Portugal; phone/fax +351 1 3622458.
    • Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais, Lisboa, Portugal
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  • J.D. Charlwood

      Affiliations

    • Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais, Lisboa, Portugal

Received 15 November 1999 ,Revised 22 December 1999 ,Accepted 22 December 1999.

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☆ This study is part of the INCO-DC/EU (IC18CT960030) project ‘Studies on mosquito vectors in West Africa, aimed at malaria epidemiology and control’. Partners involved are Centro de Malária Doenças Tropicais/IHMT, Lisbon, Portugal; Istituto di Parassitologia, Univ. ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy; Instituto Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Unidade de Entomologia Médica/IHMT, Lisbon, Portugal; Centro Nacional de Endemias, São Tomé, RDSTP; Centro Hispano-Guineano de Enfermedades Tropicales, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 94, Issue 3 , Pages 256-257 , May 2000

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