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Population dynamics of genetically diverse Plasmodium falciparum lineages: community-based prospective study in rural Amazonia.
Parasitology - 1 Sept 2009
Orjuela-Sánchez P, Da Silva-Nunes M, Da Silva N S, Scopel K K G, Gonçalves R M, Malafronte R S, Ferreira M U
Abstract excerpt
Temporal changes in the prevalence of antigenic variants in Plasmodium falciparum populations have been interpreted as evidence of immune-mediated frequency-dependent selection, but evolutively neutral processes may generate similar patterns of serotype replacement. Over 4 years, we investigated the population dynamics of P. falciparum polymorphisms at the community level by using 11 putatively neutral...
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