Comparative analysis of field-isolate and monkey-adapted Plasmodium vivax genomes.

• Main Authors: Ernest R Chan (Author), John W Barnwell (Author), Peter A Zimmerman (Author), David Serre (Author)
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• 出版: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Significant insights into the biology of Plasmodium vivax have been gained from the ability to successfully adapt human infections to non-human primates. P. vivax strains grown in monkeys serve as a renewable source of parasites for in vitro and ex vivo experimental studies and functional assays, or...