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Evolutionary history of human Plasmodium vivax revealed by genome-wide analyses of related ape paras...

Evolutionary history of human Plasmodium vivax revealed by genome-wide analyses of related ape paras...

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Evolutionary history of human Plasmodium vivax revealed by genome-wide analyses of related ape parasites

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Evolutionary history of human Plasmodium vivax revealed by genome-wide analyses of related ape parasites

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

Journal title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2018-09, Vol.115 (36), p.E8450-E8459

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English

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

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Contents

Wild-living African apes are endemically infected with parasites that are closely related to human Plasmodium vivax, a leading cause of malaria outside Africa. This finding suggests that the origin of P. vivax was in Africa, even though the parasite is now rare in humans there. To elucidate the emergence of human P. vivax and its relationship to th...

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Evolutionary history of human Plasmodium vivax revealed by genome-wide analyses of related ape parasites

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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_6130405

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_6130405

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0027-8424

E-ISSN

1091-6490

DOI

10.1073/pnas.1810053115

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