Molecular Evidence of Plasmodium vivax Mono and Mixed Malaria Parasite Infections in Duffy-Negative Native Cameroonians

The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax is known to be majorly endemic to Asian and Latin American countries with no or very few reports of Africans infected with this parasite. Since the human Duffy antigens act as receptors for P. vivax to invade human RBCs and Africans are generally Duffy-negative,...

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Autores principales: Ngassa Mbenda, Huguette Gaelle, Das, Aparup
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4118857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25084090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103262

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4118857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25084090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103262

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