A PCR-Based Technique to Track the Geographic Origin of Plasmodium falciparum With 23-SNP Barcode Analysis

• Main Authors: Fengyue Hu (Author), Qicheng Zou (Author), Yinyue Li (Author), Guoding Zhu (Author), Huayun Zhou (Author), Meihua Zhang (Author), Fang Tian (Author), Yaobao Liu (Author), Feng Lu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Increased population movement has increased the risk of reintroducing parasites to elimination areas and also dispersing drug-resistant parasites to new regions. Therefore, reliable and repeatable methods to trace back to the source of imported infections are essential. The recently developed 23-sin...