Multiplicity of Infection and Disease Severity in Plasmodium vivax.

• Main Authors: M Andreína Pacheco (Author), Mary Lopez-Perez (Author), Andrés F Vallejo (Author), Sócrates Herrera (Author), Myriam Arévalo-Herrera (Author), Ananias A Escalante (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Multiplicity of infection (MOI) refers to the average number of distinct parasite genotypes concurrently infecting a patient. Although several studies have reported on MOI and the frequency of multiclonal infections in Plasmodium falciparum, there is limited data on Plasmodium vivax. Here, MOI and t...