A high resolution case study of a patient with recurrent Plasmodium vivax infections shows that relapses were caused by meiotic siblings

ABSTRACT: Plasmodium vivax infects a hundred million people annually and endangers 40% of the world’s population. Unlike Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax parasites can persist as a dormant stage in the liver, known as the hypnozoite, and these dormant forms can cause malaria relapses months or years...

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Autores:

Arango Flórez, Eliana María
Bright, Andrew Taylor
Manary, Micah J.
Tewhey, Ryan
Wang, Tina
Schork, Nicholas J.
Kim Yanow, Stephania
Winzeler, Elizabeth A.

Tipo de recurso:

Article of investigation

Fecha de publicación:

2014

Institución:

Universidad de Antioquia

Repositorio:

Repositorio UdeA

Idioma:

eng

OAI Identifier:

oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/38919

Acceso en línea:

https://hdl.handle.net/10495/38919

Palabra clave:

Variación Genética
Genetic Variation
Genoma de Protozoos
Genome, Protozoan
Genotipo
Genotype
Malaria Vivax
Malaria, Vivax
Recombinación Genética
Recombination, Genetic
Recurrencia
Recurrence
Análisis de Secuencia de ADN
Sequence Analysis, DNA
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014644
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018503
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005838
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016780
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011995
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012008
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017422

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/