Complexity of Infection and Genetic Diversity in Cambodian Plasmodium vivax.

• Main Authors: Lindsey R Friedrich (Author), Jean Popovici (Author), Saorin Kim (Author), Lek Dysoley (Author), Peter A Zimmerman (Author), Didier Menard (Author), David Serre (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Plasmodium vivax is the most widely distributed human malaria parasite with 2.9 billion people living in endemic areas. Despite intensive malaria control efforts, the proportion of cases attributed to P. vivax is increasing in many countries. Genetic analyses of the parasite population an...