South American Plasmodium falciparum after the malaria eradication era: clonal population expansion and survival of the fittest hybrids.

Malaria has reemerged in many regions where once it was nearly eliminated. Yet the source of these parasites, the process of repopulation, their population structure, and dynamics are ill defined. Peru was one of malaria eradication's successes, where Plasmodium falciparum was nearly eliminated...

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Main Authors: Sean M Griffing, Tonya Mixson-Hayden, Sankar Sridaran, Md Tauqeer Alam, Andrea M McCollum, César Cabezas, Wilmer Marquiño Quezada, John W Barnwell, Alexandre Macedo De Oliveira, Carmen Lucas, Nancy Arrospide, Ananias A Escalante, David J Bacon, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21949680/?tool=EBI