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A Large Plasmodium vivax Reservoir and Little Population Structure in the South Pacific.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Koepfli Cristian, Timinao Lincoln, Antao Tiago, Barry Alyssa E, Siba Peter, Mueller Ivo, Felger Ingrid
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INTRODUCTION: The importance of Plasmodium vivax in malaria elimination is increasingly being recognized, yet little is known about its population size and population genetic structure in the South Pacific, an area that is the focus of intensified malaria control. METHODS: We have genotyped 13 microsatellite markers in 295 P. vivax isolates from four geographically distinct sites in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and one...
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