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SUBMITTER: Lin JT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3752811 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Jessica T JT Patel Jaymin C JC Kharabora Oksana O Sattabongkot Jetsumon J Muth Sinuon S Ubalee Ratawan R Schuster Anthony L AL Rogers William O WO Wongsrichanalai Chansuda C Juliano Jonathan J JJ
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20130318 6
Plasmodium vivax accounts for an increasing fraction of malaria infections in Thailand and Cambodia. We compared P. vivax genetic complexity and antimalarial resistance patterns in the two countries. Use of a heteroduplex tracking assay targeting the merozoite surface protein 1 gene revealed that vivax infections in both countries are frequently polyclonal (84%), with parasites that are highly diverse (HE = 0.86) but closely related (GST = 0.18). Following a history of different drug policies in ...[more]