Merozoite surface protein-3 alpha as a genetic marker for epidemiologic studies in Plasmodium vivax: A cautionary note

Malaria Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rice, Benjamin L ^a   Acosta, Mónica M ^a   Pacheco, Maria Andreína ^a   Escalante, Ananias A ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Merozoite surface protein 3 alpha; Molecular markers; Parasite diversity; PCR RFLP; Plasmodium vivax; Population genetics; Recombination

Indexed keywords

MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 3 ALPHA; MOLECULAR MARKER; PARASITE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LENGTH; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HAPLOTYPE; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM CYNOMOLGI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84882395111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-288     Document Type: Article

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