Multi-locus genotyping reveals established endemicity of a geographically distinct Plasmodium vivax population in Mauritania, West Africa.

• Main Authors: Hampate Ba (Author), Sarah Auburn (Author), Christopher G Jacob (Author), Sonia Goncalves (Author), Craig W Duffy (Author), Lindsay B Stewart (Author), Ric N Price (Author), Yacine Boubou Deh (Author), Mamadou Yero Diallo (Author), Abderahmane Tandia (Author), Dominic P Kwiatkowski (Author), David J Conway (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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<h4>Background</h4>Plasmodium vivax has been recently discovered as a significant cause of malaria in Mauritania, although very rare elsewhere in West Africa. It has not been known if this is a recently introduced or locally remnant parasite population, nor whether the genetic structure...