Two independent preliminary analyses of GWA association with severe falciparum malaria in Africans have been carried out, one by the Malariagen Consortium in a Gambian population and the other by Rolf Horstmann ( Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg ) and his colleagues on a Ghanaian population.
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The authors of the studies, published in the journals Science and Nature, said they will make the full genetic maps of both the Anopheles gambiae mosquito and Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite available for free on computer discs, in order to assist Third World physicians unable to access them on the Internet.
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:: Funnily when I was working in West Africa and contracted Plasmodium falciparum Malaria the first inkling ( and immediate self diagnosis ) was turning off the aircon and switching on the heating in a car parked in full sun with an outside temp of 37C . I found myself wondering why I had never switched the heating knob in the car before and then it sunk in.
