Article
Population genomic evidence of a Southeast Asian origin of <i>Plasmodium vivax</i>
2020-04-29
Abstract excerpt
Plasmodium vivax is the most prevalent and widespread human malaria parasite, with almost three billion people living at risk of infection. With the discovery of its closest genetic relatives in African great apes ( Plasmodium vivax-like ), the origin of P. vivax has been proposed to be located in the sub-Saharan African area. However, the limited number of genetic markers and samples investigated questioned the...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 25cf5129-a095-5b1e-aca1-2b4a9f193e20
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.04.29.067439
