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Molecular and cell biology have a great deal to offer tropical medicine in the future. As well as helping to understand the population genetics and dynamics of both infectious and non-infectious diseases, they promise to provide a new generation of diagnostic and therapeutic agents, and to play a major role in the development of new vaccines and other approaches to the control of disease in tropical communities.

More information Original publication

DOI

10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a011703

Type

Journal article

Publication Date

1998-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Volume

54

Pages

489 - 501

Total pages

12

Keywords

Developing Countries, Forecasting, Genes, Bacterial, Genetic Engineering, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Malaria, Molecular Biology, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sickle Cell Trait, Tropical Medicine, Vaccines