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Science 4 October 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5591, pp. 121 - 122
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078048
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Malaria--a Shadow over Africa

Louis H. Miller,1 Brian Greenwood2

Reduction in severe disease and death from falciparum malaria in Africa requires new, more effective and inexpensive public health measures. The completed genomes of Plasmodium falciparum and its vector Anopheles gambiae represent a big step toward the discovery of these needed tools.

1 Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
2 Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1B 3DP, UK.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)