Mitochondrial genome of Plasmodium vivax/simium detected in an endemic region for malaria in the Atlantic Forest of Espírito Santo state, Brazil: do mosquitoes, simians and humans harbour the same parasite?

Mitochondrial genome of Plasmodium vivax/simium detected in an endemic region for malaria in the Atlantic Forest of Espírito Santo state, Brazil: do mosquitoes, simians and humans harbour the same parasite?

Abstract Background The transmission of malaria in the extra-Amazonian regions of Brazil, although interrupted in the 1960s, has persisted to the present time in some areas of dense Atlantic Forest, with reports of cases characterized by particular transmission cycles and clinical presentations. Bro...

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Main Authors: Julyana Cerqueira Buery, Priscila Thihara Rodrigues, Lícia Natal, Laís Camoese Salla, Ana Carolina Loss, Creuza Rachel Vicente, Helder Ricas Rezende, Ana Maria Ribeiro de Castro Duarte, Blima Fux, Rosely dos Santos Malafronte, Aloísio Falqueto, Crispim Cerutti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:Malaria Journal
Subjects:
Anopheles
Malaria
Epidemiology
Real-time polymerase chain reaction
DNA, mitochondrial
Sequence analyses, DNA
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-017-2080-9

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