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Plasmodium vivax polymorphism in a clinical drug trial.
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology - 1 Sept 2001
Adak T, Valecha N, Sharma V P
Abstract excerpt
Data from a double-blind randomized clinical drug trial were analyzed to find the comparative responses of two antirelapse drugs, bulaquine and primaquine, against different relapsing forms of Plasmodium vivax infection. A 1-year follow-up study strongly suggests that the duration of preerythrocytic development of P. vivax is a polymorphic characteristic, exhibited by two strains of hypnozoites responsible for...
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