Short communicationAnalysis of genetic polymorphism in select vaccine candidate antigens and microsatellite loci in Plasmodium falciparum from endemic areas at varying altitudes
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the National Institute of Health Research in Zimbabwe for facilitating sample collection. We also acknowledge the Fogarty International Center Training Grant (TW001587) for funding and training of Godfree Mlambo. Research in the Kumar and Sullivan labs is supported by research grants from the NIH.
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