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Population genomics reveals the expansion of highly inbred Plasmodium vivax lineages in the main malaria hotspot of Brazil.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Oct 2020
de Oliveira Thaís Crippa, Corder Rodrigo M, Early Angela, Rodrigues Priscila T, Ladeia-Andrade Simone, Alves João Marcelo P, Neafsey Daniel E, Ferreira Marcelo U
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BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax is a neglected human malaria parasite that causes significant morbidity in the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and the Western Pacific. Population genomic approaches remain little explored to map local and regional transmission pathways of P. vivax across the main endemic sites in the Americas, where great progress has been made towards malaria elimination over the past decades....
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