Article
Complexity of Infection and Genetic Diversity in Cambodian Plasmodium vivax.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Mar 2016
Friedrich Lindsey R, Popovici Jean, Kim Saorin, Dysoley Lek, Zimmerman Peter A, Menard Didier, Serre David
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax is the most widely distributed human malaria parasite with 2.9 billion people living in endemic areas. Despite intensive malaria control efforts, the proportion of cases attributed to P. vivax is increasing in many countries. Genetic analyses of the parasite population and its dynamics could provide an assessment of the efficacy of control efforts, but, unfortunately, these studies...
Topics
- Cambodia
- DNA, Protozoan
- Female
- Genetic Markers
- Genotype
- Humans
- Malaria, Vivax
- Male
- Plasmodium vivax
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide