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Mosquito Vectors and the Globalization of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria.
Annual review of genetics - 23 Nov 2016
Molina-Cruz Alvaro, Zilversmit Martine M, Neafsey Daniel E, Hartl Daniel L, Barillas-Mury Carolina
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Plasmodium falciparum malaria remains a devastating public health problem. Recent discoveries have shed light on the origin and evolution of Plasmodium parasites and their interactions with their vertebrate and mosquito hosts. P. falciparum malaria originated in Africa from a single horizontal transfer between an infected gorilla and a human, and became global as the result of human migration. Today, P....
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