title: Tanabe sensei: Vanguard at the dawn of molecular malariology in Japan.
authors.affiliation: Department of Protozoology, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8123, Japan. Electronic address: okaneko@nagasaki-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kaneko