Article
Population structure and transmission dynamics of Plasmodium vivax in rural Amazonia.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Apr 2007
Ferreira Marcelo U, Karunaweera Nadira D, da Silva-Nunes Monica, da Silva Natal S, Wirth Dyann F, Hartl Daniel L
Abstract excerpt
Understanding the genetic structure of malaria parasites is essential to predict how fast some phenotypes of interest originate and spread in populations. In the present study, we used highly polymorphic microsatellite markers to analyze 74 Plasmodium vivax isolates, which we collected in cross-s...
Topics
- Animals
- Brazil
- Cross-Sectional Studies
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Longitudinal Studies
- Malaria, Vivax
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Plasmodium vivax
- Polymorphism, Genetic
