The hide and seek of Plasmodium vivax in West Africa: report from a large-scale study in Beninese asymptomatic subjects

BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax is considered to be absent from western Africa, where the prevalence of Duffy-negative red blood cell phenotype proves to be high. Several studies have, however, detected P. vivax infection cases in this part of Africa, raising the question of what is the actual prevalen...

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Autores principales: Poirier, Philippe, Doderer-Lang, Cécile, Atchade, Pascal S., Lemoine, Jean-Philippe, de l’Isle, Marie-Louise Coquelin, Abou-bacar, Ahmed, Pfaff, Alexander W., Brunet, Julie, Arnoux, Lydia, Haar, Elodie, Filisetti, Denis, Perrotey, Sylvie, Chabi, Nicodeme W., Akpovi, Casimir D., Anani, Ludovic, Bigot, André, Sanni, Ambaliou, Candolfi, Ermanno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5123334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27887647
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1620-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5123334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27887647
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1620-z

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