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The origin and age of Plasmodium vivax.
Trends in parasitology - 1 Dec 2006
Cornejo Omar E, Escalante Ananias A
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary history of Plasmodium vivax has recently been addressed in terms of its origin as a parasite of humans and the age of extant populations. The consensus is that P. vivax originated as a result of a host switch from a non-human primate to hominids and that the extant populations did not originate as recently as previously proposed. Here, we show that, in a comparison of parasite isolates from...
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