Microsatellite Genotyping of Plasmodium vivax Isolates from Pregnant Women in Four Malaria Endemic Countries.

Plasmodium vivax is the most widely distributed human parasite and the main cause of human malaria outside the African continent. However, the knowledge about the genetic variability of P. vivax is limited when compared to the information available for P. falciparum. We present the results of a stud...

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Main Authors: Michela Menegon, Azucena Bardají, Flor Martínez-Espinosa, Camila Bôtto-Menezes, Maria Ome-Kaius, Ivo Mueller, Inoni Betuela, Myriam Arévalo-Herrera, Swati Kochar, Sanjay K Kochar, Puneet Jaju, Dhiraj Hans, Chetan Chitnis, Norma Padilla, María Eugenia Castellanos, Lucía Ortiz, Sergi Sanz, Mireia Piqueras, Meghna Desai, Alfredo Mayor, Hernando Del Portillo, Clara Menéndez, Carlo Severini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4807005?pdf=render