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<i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> expresses fewer <i>var</i> genes at lower levels during asymptomatic dry season infections than clinical malaria cases
2024-12-30
Abstract excerpt
In seasonal transmission areas, clinical malaria occurs during the wet season when mosquitoes are present, while in the dry season, malaria transmission is interrupted and clinical cases are rare. In Mali, Plasmodium falciparum can persist in low parasitaemic asymptomatic individuals through the six-month dry season and shows reduced cytoadhesion of infected erythrocytes, evidenced by the circulation of further d...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ac407917-61d0-5b9d-9a9b-f613782ab4d0
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.12.30.630752
