No More Monkeying Around: Primate Malaria Model Systems are Key to Understanding Plasmodium vivax Liver-Stage Biology, Hypnozoites, and Relapses
Plasmodium vivax is a human malaria parasite responsible for significant morbidity worldwide and potentially death. This parasite possesses formidable liver-stage biology that involves the formation of dormant parasites known as hypnozoites. Hypnozoites are capable of activating weeks, months, or ye...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00145/full |