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South American Plasmodium falciparum after the malaria eradication era: clonal population expansion and survival of the fittest hybrids.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Griffing Sean M, Mixson-Hayden Tonya, Sridaran Sankar, Alam Md Tauqeer, McCollum Andrea M, Cabezas César, Marquiño Quezada Wilmer, Barnwell John W, De Oliveira Alexandre Macedo, Lucas Carmen, Arrospide Nancy, Escalante Ananias A, Bacon David J, Udhayakumar Venkatachalam
Abstract excerpt
Malaria has reemerged in many regions where once it was nearly eliminated. Yet the source of these parasites, the process of repopulation, their population structure, and dynamics are ill defined. Peru was one of malaria eradication's successes, where Plasmodium falciparum was nearly eliminated f...
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