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Limited diversity of Anopheles darlingi in the Peruvian Amazon region of Iquitos.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 Aug 2006
Pinedo-Cancino Viviana, Sheen Patricia, Tarazona-Santos Eduardo, Oswald William E, Jeri Cesar, Vittor Amy Yomiko, Patz Jonathan A, Gilman Robert H
Abstract excerpt
Anopheles darlingi is the most important malaria vector in the Amazon basin of South America, and is capable of transmitting both Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax. To understand the genetic structure of this vector in the Amazonian region of Peru, a simple polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based test to identify this species of mosquito was used. A random amplified polymorphic DNA-PCR was used to study genetic...
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