Independent Origin and Global Distribution of Distinct Plasmodium vivax Duffy Binding Protein Gene Duplications.

• Главные авторы: Jessica B Hostetler (Автор), Eugenia Lo (Автор), Usheer Kanjee (Автор), Chanaki Amaratunga (Автор), Seila Suon (Автор), Sokunthea Sreng (Автор), Sivanna Mao (Автор), Delenasaw Yewhalaw (Автор), Anjali Mascarenhas (Автор), Dominic P Kwiatkowski (Автор), Marcelo U Ferreira (Автор), Pradipsinh K Rathod (Автор), Guiyun Yan (Автор), Rick M Fairhurst (Автор), Manoj T Duraisingh (Автор), Julian C Rayner (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Plasmodium vivax causes the majority of malaria episodes outside Africa, but remains a relatively understudied pathogen. The pathology of P. vivax infection depends critically on the parasite's ability to recognize and invade human erythrocytes. This invasion process involves an inte...