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SUBMITTER: Niangaly A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5590610 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Niangaly Amadou A Karthigayan Gunalan Amed Ouattara Coulibaly Drissa D Sá Juliana M JM Adams Matthew M Travassos Mark A MA Ferrero Jennifer J Laurens Matthew B MB Kone Abdoulaye K AK Thera Mahamadou A MA Plowe Christopher V CV Miller Louis H LH Doumbo Ogobara K OK
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20170727 3
<i>Plasmodium vivax</i> was thought to infect only the erythrocytes of Duffy blood group positive people. In the last decade, <i>P. vivax</i> has appeared throughout Africa, both in areas where Duffy positive and negative people live side by side as in Madagascar and Ethiopia and in areas where people are primarily Duffy negative, such as in western Kenya. We performed quantitative polymerase chain reaction on blood samples dried onto filter paper to determine the prevalence of <i>P. vivax</i> a ...[more]