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Genetic complexity of Plasmodium vivax infections in Sri Lanka, as reflected at the merozoite-surface-protein-3alpha locus.
Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology - 1 Mar 2010
Wickramarachchi T, Premaratne P H, Dias S, Handunnetti S M, Udagama-Randeniya P V
Abstract excerpt
The presence of genetically different strains of malarial parasites in cases of human malaria is a severe drawback in the successful control of the disease. In Sri Lanka, although this species accounts for 60%-80% of all of the cases of clinical malaria that occur each year, the genetic complexity of Plasmodium vivax on the island remains to be elucidated. In recent studies based on PCR-RFLP and the parasites'...
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