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Fragmented population structure of plasmodium falciparum in a region of declining endemicity.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 May 2005
Anthony Thomas G, Conway David J, Cox-Singh Janet, Matusop Asmad, Ratnam Shanmuga, Shamsul Sunita, Singh Balbir
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BACKGROUND: The population genetic structure of Plasmodium falciparum differs between endemic regions, but the characteristics of a population recently fragmented by effective malaria control have been unknown. METHODS: Genotypic analysis of 10 microsatellite loci widely separated in the parasite genome was conducted on 288 P. falciparum isolates from 8 foci in Malaysian Borneo, a region in which malaria...
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