A closer look at multiple-clone Plasmodium vivax infections: detection methods, prevalence and consequences.

doi:10.1590/s0074-02762009000100011

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A closer look at multiple-clone Plasmodium vivax infections: detection methods, prevalence and consequences.

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 1 Feb 2009

Havryliuk Tatiana, Ferreira Marcelo U

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The naturally occurring clonal diversity among field isolates of the major human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax remained unexplored until the early 1990s, when improved molecular methods allowed the use of blood samples obtained directly from patients, without prior in vitro culture, for genot...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Genotype
Humans
Malaria, Vivax
Microsatellite Repeats
Plasmodium vivax
Prevalence

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