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Growing evidence of Plasmodium vivax across malaria-endemic Africa. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019 Effective malaria control strategies require an accurate understanding of the epidemiology of locally transmitted Plasmodium species. Compared to Plasmodium falciparum infection, Plasmodium vivax has a lower asexual parasitaemia, forms dormant liver ...
Katherine A Twohig +8 more
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Clinical and epidemiological characterization of severe Plasmodium vivax malaria in Gujarat, India
Virulence, 2020 The mounting evidence supporting the capacity of Plasmodium vivax to cause severe disease has prompted the need for a better characterization of the resulting clinical complications. India is making progress with reducing malaria, but epidemics of severe
Anupkumar R. Anvikar +11 more
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Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2018 Background Plasmodium vivax is the most geographically widespread species among human malaria parasites. Immunopathological studies have shown that platelets are an important component of the host innate immune response against malaria infections.
Cho Naing, Maxine A. Whittaker
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Plasmodium vivax: the potential obstacles it presents to malaria elimination and eradication
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, 2022 Initiatives to eradicate malaria have a good impact on P. falciparum malaria worldwide. P. vivax , however, still presents significant difficulties. This is due to its unique biological traits, which, in comparison to P.
Kassahun Habtamu, B. Petros, G. Yan
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The prevention and treatment of Plasmodium vivax malaria
PLoS Medicine, 2021 Cindy S Chu and co-authors review options for diagnosis, safe and radical cure, and relapse prevention of Plasmodium Vivax.
C. Chu, N. White
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PLoS Medicine, 2021 Background A very large biomass of intact asexual-stage malaria parasites accumulates in the spleen of asymptomatic human individuals infected with Plasmodium vivax. The mechanisms underlying this intense tropism are not clear.
Steven Kho +31 more
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The global burden of Plasmodium vivax malaria is obscure and insidious
PLoS Medicine, 2021 J. Kevin Baird and colleagues, examine and discuss the estimated global burden of vivax malaria and it’s biological, clinical, and public health complexity.
K. Battle, J. Baird
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Towards the elimination of Plasmodium vivax malaria: Implementing the radical cure
PLoS Medicine, 2021 In this review for the Vivax malaria collection, Kamala Thriemer and colleagues explore efforts to eliminate P. vivax malaria.
K. Thriemer, B. Ley, L. von Seidlein
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eLife, 2021 X-linked glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is the most common human enzymopathy. The severe Mediterranean variant (G6PD Med) found across Europe and Asia is thought to confer protection against malaria, but its effect is unclear.
G. R. Awab +10 more
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2016 INTRODUCTION In the Brazilian Amazon, malaria infections are primarily caused by Plasmodium vivax. The only drug that kills the hypnozoite form of P. vivax is primaquine, thereby preventing relapse.
Marcelo Brito +8 more
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