Plasmodium vivax infection among Duffy antigen-negative individuals from the Brazilian Amazon region: an exception?

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1042-1044

  Cavasini, Carlos Eugênio ^a   Mattos, Luiz Carlos de ^a   Couto, Álvaro Augusto D'Almeida ^b   Bonini Domingos, Cláudia Regina ^c   Valencia, Socrates Herrera ^d   Neiras, Wanessa Christina de Souza ^a   Alves, Renata Tomé ^a   Rossit, Andréa Regina Baptista ^a   Castilho, Lilian ^e   Machado, Ricardo Luiz Dantas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SEAMA Faculty   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Duffy antigen binding protein; Duffy blood group; Plasmodium vivax; Protozoan proteins; Vivax malaria

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP ANTIGEN; CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP DUFFY SYSTEM; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALARIA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BRAZIL; DUFFY BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOA;

EID: 34548271424     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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