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

• Autores principales: Hampate Ba (Autor), Sarah Auburn (Autor), Christopher G Jacob (Autor), Sonia Goncalves (Autor), Craig W Duffy (Autor), Lindsay B Stewart (Autor), Ric N Price (Autor), Yacine Boubou Deh (Autor), Mamadou Yero Diallo (Autor), Abderahmane Tandia (Autor), Dominic P Kwiatkowski (Autor), David J Conway (Autor)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: 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...