Increasingly inbred and fragmented populations of Plasmodium vivax associated with the eastward decline in malaria transmission across the Southwest Pacific.

• Main Authors: Andreea Waltmann (Author), Cristian Koepfli (Author), Natacha Tessier (Author), Stephan Karl (Author), Abebe Fola (Author), Andrew W Darcy (Author), Lyndes Wini (Author), G L Abby Harrison (Author), Céline Barnadas (Author), Charlie Jennison (Author), Harin Karunajeewa (Author), Sarah Boyd (Author), Maxine Whittaker (Author), James Kazura (Author), Melanie Bahlo (Author), Ivo Mueller (Author), Alyssa E Barry (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax is more resistant to malaria control strategies than Plasmodium falciparum, and maintains high genetic diversity even when transmission is low. To investigate whether declining P. vivax transmission leads to increasing population structure that would facil...