Disparate selection of mutations in the dihydrofolate reductase gene (dhfr) of Plasmodium ovale curtisi and P. o. wallikeri in Africa.

• Main Authors: Jing Chen (Author), Xiaoqin Ma (Author), Jianxia Tang (Author), Sui Xu (Author), Yaping Gu (Author), Feng Tang (Author), Yuanyuan Cao (Author), Weiming Wang (Author), Huayun Zhou (Author), Jiayao Zhang (Author), Xinyu Yu (Author), Guoding Zhu (Author), Meng Zhu (Author), Qingfeng Zhang (Author), Richard Culleton (Author), Yaobao Liu (Author), Jun Cao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Plasmodium ovale curtisi and P. ovale wallikeri are both endemic in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Molecular surveillance data for drug resistance in P. ovale spp. is limited at present. We analysed polymorphisms in the podhfr, pocrt and pocytb genes of P. ovale spp. in 147...