Article
Genetic diversity of Plasmodium vivax malaria in China and Myanmar.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2011
Zhong Daibin, Bonizzoni Mariangela, Zhou Guofa, Wang Guangze, Chen Bin, Vardo-Zalik Anne, Cui Liwang, Yan Guiyun, Zheng Bin
Abstract excerpt
Genetic diversity and population structure of Plasmodium vivax parasites are valuable to the prediction of the origin and spread of novel variants within and between populations, and to the program evaluation of malaria control measures. Using two polymorphic genetic markers, the merozoite surface protein genes PvMSP-3α and PvMSP-3β, we investigated the genetic diversity of four Southeast Asian P. vivax...
Topics
- Antigens, Protozoan
- China
- Endemic Diseases
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Humans
- Malaria, Vivax
- Myanmar
- Phylogeny
- Phylogeography
- Plasmodium vivax
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length