Relapse or reinfection: Classification of malaria infection using transition likelihoods.

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In patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria treated with effective blood-stage therapy, the recurrent illness may occur due to relapse from latent liver-stage infection or reinfection from a new mosquito bite. Classification of the recurrent infection as either relapse or reinfection is critical when evaluating the efficacy of an anti-relapse treatment. Although one can use whether a shared genetic variant exists...

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