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New insights on malaria parasite adaptation yielded by samples archived for more than 50 years

2025-03-11

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Understanding evolution of human pathogens requires looking beyond effects of recent interventions or known epidemiological changes. To study malaria parasites prior to widespread drug selection, Plasmodium falciparum genome sequences were analysed from the oldest set of archived research samples yet identified, placental blood collected in the Gambia between 1966 and 1971. Genomic complexity within infections wa...

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Literature Corpus work: 24c386c5-a3ef-5e34-b35c-ead5c11134c4
DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.11.642566

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