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Genetic variation and recurrent parasitaemia in Peruvian Plasmodium vivax populations.
Malaria journal - 24 Feb 2014
McCollum Andrea M, Soberon Valeria, Salas Carola J, Santolalla Meddly L, Udhayakumar Venkatachalam, Escalante Ananias A, Graf Paul C F, Durand Salomon, Cabezas Cesar, Bacon David J
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BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax is a predominant species of malaria in parts of South America and there is increasing resistance to drugs to treat infections by P. vivax. The existence of latent hypnozoites further complicates the ability to classify recurrent infections as treatment failures due to...
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