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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Main Authors: Chester J Joyner, John W Barnwell, Mary R Galinski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00145/full