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Microsatellite genotyping of Plasmodium vivax infections and their relapses in pregnant and non-pregnant patients on the Thai-Myanmar border.
Malaria journal - 6 Aug 2013
Thanapongpichat Supinya, McGready Rose, Luxemburger Christine, Day Nicholas P J, White Nicholas J, Nosten Francois, Snounou Georges, Imwong Mallika
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BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax infections in pregnancy are associated with low birth weight and anaemia. This parasites species is also characterised by relapses, erythrocytic infections initiated by the activation of the dormant liver stages, the hypnozoites, to mature. Genotyping of P. vivax usin...
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