Article
<i>Plasmodium vivax</i>relapse, reinfection and recrudescence estimation using genetic data
2022-11-24
Abstract excerpt
Malaria is a major public health concern. Among the two most important causes of human malaria, Plasmodium vivax is the hardest to eliminate, owing largely to its ability to relapse (cause recurrent blood-stage infection following the activation of dormant liver-stage parasites called hypnozoites). Recurrent vivax malaria can also follow a failure to treat a preceding blood-stage infection (recrudescence) and, in...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 97286956-5de3-5360-ad0a-f57613e0fde6
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.11.23.22282669
