Plasmodium falciparum populations from northeastern Myanmar display high levels of genetic diversity at multiple antigenic loci

Acta Tropica

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 53-59

  Yuan, Lili ^a   Zhao, Hui ^a   Wu, Lanou ^a   Li, Xiaomei ^a   Parker, Daniel ^b   Xu, Shuhui ^a   Zhao, Yousheng ^a   Feng, Guohua ^a   Wang, Ying ^c   Yan, Guiyun ^d   Fan, Qi ^e   Yang, Zhaoqing ^a   Cui, Liwang ^b  

^a KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Dalian Institute of Biotechnology   (China)

Author keywords

Antigenic diversity; Border malaria; Multiplicity of infection; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANTIGEN; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MALARIA; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GLURP GENE; HAPLOTYPE; MSP1 GENE; MSP2 GENE; MYANMAR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; COINFECTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MIDDLE AGED; MYANMAR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

CHINA; MYANMAR;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84868711294     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.09.008     Document Type: Article

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