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Tracking malaria parasites in the eradication era.
Trends in parasitology - 1 Oct 2014
Ferreira Marcelo U, Rodrigues Priscila T
Abstract excerpt
As more endemic countries enter the elimination phase, the detection of sporadic malaria infections or outbreaks elicits many questions: (i) are the infections locally acquired or imported? (ii) If imported, where do they come from? (iii) Do outbreak strains have a single or multiple geographic origins? New molecular barcoding methods provide ways to analyze clinical malaria parasite samples and answer these and...
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