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Microsatellite Characterization of Plasmodium falciparum from Cerebral and Uncomplicated Malaria Patients in Southern Vietnam

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: If parasite genotype influences the clinical course of malaria, we expect that isolates from patients with similar pathology would be more closely related than would be expected by chance. To explore this prediction, we typed nine microsatellite markers in sympatric Plasmodium falciparum isolates from cerebral and uncomplicated malaria patients from Vietnam. Temporal structure and linkage disequilibrium were also examined in this data set.

Source: Journal of Clinical Microbiology

DOI: 10.1128/jcm.40.5.1854-1857.2002

Authors: Marcelo U. Ferreira, Shalini Nair, Thien Van Hyunh, Fumihiko Kawamoto, Timothy J. C. Anderson

Institutions: Universidade de São Paulo, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, Nagoya University

Language: English

Topic: Malaria Research and Control

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases