Article
High frequency of the erythroid silent Duffy antigen genotype and lack of Plasmodium vivax infections in Haiti.
Malaria journal - 24 Jan 2013
Weppelmann Thomas A, Carter Tamar E, Chen Zhongsheng, von Fricken Michael E, Victor Yves S, Existe Alexander, Okech Bernard A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Malaria is a significant public health concern in Haiti where approximately 30,000 cases are reported annually with CDC estimates as high as 200,000. Malaria infections in Haiti are caused almost exclusively by Plasmodium falciparum, while a small number of Plasmodium malariae and an even smaller number of putative Plasmodium vivax infections have been reported. The lack of confirmed P. vivax...
Topics
- Disease Resistance
- Duffy Blood-Group System
- Gene Frequency
- Haiti
- Humans
- Malaria, Vivax
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Promoter Regions, Genetic