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Plasmodium knowlesi genome sequences from clinical isolates reveal extensive genomic dimorphism.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Pinheiro Miguel M, Ahmed Md Atique, Millar Scott B, Sanderson Theo, Otto Thomas D, Lu Woon Chan, Krishna Sanjeev, Rayner Julian C, Cox-Singh Janet
Abstract excerpt
Plasmodium knowlesi is a newly described zoonosis that causes malaria in the human population that can be severe and fatal. The study of P. knowlesi parasites from human clinical isolates is relatively new and, in order to obtain maximum information from patient sample collections, we explored the possibility of generating P. knowlesi genome sequences from archived clinical isolates. Our patient sample collection...
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