Genetic complexity of Plasmodium vivax parasites in individual human infections analyzed with monoclonal antibodies against variant epitopes on a single parasite protein.

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Monoclonal antibodies against variant epitopes of a highly polymorphic protein (PV200) in schizonts of Plasmodium vivax have been used to analyze the variety of genetically distinct populations of parasites present in the peripheral blood of individual P. vivax infections in Sri Lanka. In 9 out of 10 isolates of freshly drawn P. vivax infected blood from different individuals, parasites of only 1 PV200 serotype...

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