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Duffy blood group genotypes among malaria patients in Rondônia, Western Brazilian Amazon.
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - 1 Jan 2000
Cavasini C E, Tarelho Pereira F J, Ribeiro W L, Wunderlich G, Ferreira M U
Abstract excerpt
We have compared Duffy blood group genotype distribution, as determined by polymerase chain reaction with allele-specific primers, in 68 Plasmodium vivax-infected patients and 59 non-vivax malaria controls from Rondônia, Brazil. Homozygosity for the allele Fy, which abolishes Duffy antigen expression on erythrocytes, was observed in 12% non-vivax controls but in no P. vivax patient. However, no significant...
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