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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Autor principal: Culleton, Richard L. (author)
Outros Autores: Mita, Toshihiro (author), Ndounga, Mathieu (author), Unger, Holger (author), Cravo, Pedro V.L. (author), Paganotti, Giacomo M. (author), Takahashi, Nobuyuki (author), Kaneko, Akira (author), Eto, Hideaki (author), Tinto, Halidou (author), Karema, Corine (author), D'Alessandro, Umberto (author), Do Rosário, Virgilio (author), Kobayakawa, Takatoshi (author), Ntoumi, Francine (author), Carter, Richard (author), Tanabe, Kazuyuki (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2021
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10362/117259
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:run.unl.pt:10362/117259