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SUBMITTER: Carlton JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2651158 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature 20081001 7214
The human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax is responsible for 25-40% of the approximately 515 million annual cases of malaria worldwide. Although seldom fatal, the parasite elicits severe and incapacitating clinical symptoms and often causes relapses months after a primary infection has cleared. Despite its importance as a major human pathogen, P. vivax is little studied because it cannot be propagated continuously in the laboratory except in non-human primates. We sequenced the genome of P. vi ...[more]