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SUBMITTER: Choi YK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2829904 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi Yien-Kyoung YK Choi Kyung-Mi KM Park Mi-Hyun MH Lee Eun-Gyu EG Kim Yeon-Joo YJ Lee Byeong-Chul BC Cho Shin-Hyung SH Rhie Ho-Gun HG Lee Ho-Sa HS Yu Jae-Ran JR Lee Joo-Shil JS Kim Tong-Soo TS Kim Jung-Yeon JY
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20100301 3
Reemerged Plasmodium vivax malaria in South Korea has not yet been eradicated despite continuous governmental efforts. It has rather become an endemic disease. Our study aimed to determine the genetic diversity in P. vivax merozoite surface protein-1 (PvMSP-1) and circumsporozoite protein (PvCSP) genes over an extended period after its reemergence to its current status. Sequence analysis of PvMSP-1 gene sequences from the 632 P. vivax isolates during 1996-2007 indicates that most isolates recent ...[more]