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Comparative analysis of field-isolate and monkey-adapted Plasmodium vivax genomes.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Mar 2015
Chan Ernest R, Barnwell John W, Zimmerman Peter A, Serre David
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Significant insights into the biology of Plasmodium vivax have been gained from the ability to successfully adapt human infections to non-human primates. P. vivax strains grown in monkeys serve as a renewable source of parasites for in vitro and ex vivo experimental studies and functional assays, or for studying in vivo the relapse characteristics, mosquito species compatibilities, drug susceptibility profiles or...
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