Association of TLR variants with susceptibility to Plasmodium vivax malaria and parasitemia in the Amazon region of Brazil.

Plasmodium vivax malaria (Pv-malaria) is still considered a neglected disease despite an alarming number of individuals being infected annually. Malaria pathogenesis occurs with the onset of the vector-parasite-host interaction through the binding of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) an...

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Main Authors: Allyson Guimarães Costa, Rajendranath Ramasawmy, Hiochelson Najibe Santos Ibiapina, Vanderson Souza Sampaio, Lilyane Amorim Xábregas, Larissa Wanderley Brasil, Andréa Monteiro Tarragô, Anne Cristine Gomes Almeida, Andrea Kuehn, Sheila Vitor-Silva, Gisely Cardoso Melo, André Machado Siqueira, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro, Marcus Vinicius Guimarães Lacerda, Adriana Malheiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5574562?pdf=render