Whole Genome Sequencing of Field Isolates Reveals a Common Duplication of the Duffy Binding Protein Gene in Malagasy Plasmodium vivax Strains

BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax is the most prevalent human malaria parasite, causing serious public health problems in malaria-endemic countries. Until recently the Duffy-negative blood group phenotype was considered to confer resistance to vivax malaria for most African ethnicities. We and others hav...

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Autores principales: Menard, Didier, Chan, Ernest R., Benedet, Christophe, Ratsimbasoa, Arsène, Kim, Saorin, Chim, Pheaktra, Do, Catherine, Witkowski, Benoit, Durand, Remy, Thellier, Marc, Severini, Carlo, Legrand, Eric, Musset, Lise, Nour, Bakri Y. M., Mercereau-Puijalon, Odile, Serre, David, Zimmerman, Peter A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3836732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24278487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002489

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