Failure to detect Plasmodium vivax in West and Central Africa by PCR species typing

BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax is estimated to affect 75 million people annually. It is reportedly absent, however, from west and central Africa due to the high prevalence of the Duffy negative phenotype in the indigenous populations. Despite this, non-African travellers consistently return to their o...

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Autores principales: Culleton, Richard L, Mita, Toshihiro, Ndounga, Mathieu, Unger, Holger, Cravo, Pedro VL, Paganotti, Giacomo M, Takahashi, Nobuyuki, Kaneko, Akira, Eto, Hideaki, Tinto, Halidou, Karema, Corine, D'Alessandro, Umberto, do Rosário, Virgilio, Kobayakawa, Takatoshi, Ntoumi, Francine, Carter, Richard, Tanabe, Kazuyuki
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2546428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18783630
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-7-174

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