A High Resolution Case Study of a Patient with Recurrent Plasmodium vivax Infections Shows That Relapses Were Caused by Meiotic Siblings
Plasmodium vivax infects a hundred million people annually and endangers 40% of the world's population. Unlike Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax parasites can persist as a dormant stage in the liver, known as the hypnozoite, and these dormant forms can cause malaria relapses months or years after...
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Format: | Artigo |
Language: | English |
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2014
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002882 https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0002882&type=printable |
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