- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: The reservoir of Plasmodium infection in humans has traditionally been defined by blood slide positivity. This study was designed to characterize the local reservoir of infection in relation to the diverse var genes that encode the major surface antigen of Plasmodium falciparum blood stages and underlie the parasite's ability to establish chronic infection and transmit from human to mosquito. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We investigated the molecular epidemiology of the var mul...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's Version
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- e16629
- Publication date:
- 2011-02-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2011-01-06
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
- URN:
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uuid:e4cb7815-e2d1-47dc-9fec-fa54e32cf295
- Source identifiers:
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120372
- Local pid:
- pubs:120372
- Copyright holder:
- Chen et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
- © 2011 Chen et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A molecular epidemiological study of var gene diversity to characterize the reservoir of Plasmodium falciparum in humans in Africa
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