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<i>Plasmodium vivax</i> : Recent world expansion and genetic identity to <i>Plasmodium simium</i>
14 Oct 2005
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Plasmodium vivax causes the most geographically widespread human malaria, accounting annually for 70-80 million clinical cases throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world's continents. We have analyzed the DNA sequences of the Csp (circumsporozoite protein) gene in 24 geographically representative strains of P. vivax and 2 of P. simium, which parasitizes several species of New World monkeys. The...
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