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Variant Plasmodium ovale isolated from a patient infected in Ghana.
Malaria journal - 22 Jan 2011
Tordrup David, Virenfeldt Jakob, Andersen Felicie F, Petersen Eskild
Abstract excerpt
Recent data have found that Plasmodium ovale can be separated in two distinct species: classic and variant P. ovale based on multilocus typing of different genes. This study presents a P. ovale isolate from a patient infected in Ghana together with an analysis of the small subunit RNA, cytochrome b, cytochrome c oxidase I, cysteine protease and lactate dehydrogenase genes, which show that the sample is a variant...
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