Plasmodium vivax metacaspase 1 (PvMCA1) catalytic domain is conserved in field isolates from Brazilian Amazon

In the present study, we investigated the genetic diversity of Plasmodium vivax metacaspase 1 (PvMCA1) catalytic domain in two municipalities of the main malaria hotspot in Brazil, i.e., the Juruá Valley, and observed complete sequence identity among all P. vivax field isolates and the Sal-1 referen...

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Main Authors: Hugo Amorim dos Santos de Souza, Victor Fernandes Escafa, Carolina Moreira Blanco, Bárbara de Oliveira Baptista, Jenifer Peixoto de Barros, Evelyn Ketty Pratt Riccio, Aline Beatriz Mello Rodrigues, Gisely Cardoso de Melo, Marcus Vinícius Guimarães de Lacerda, Rodrigo Medeiros de Souza, Josué da Costa Lima-Junior, Ana Carolina Ramos Guimarães, Fabio Faria da Mota, João Hermínio Martins da Silva, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Lilian Rose Pratt-Riccio, Paulo Renato Rivas Totino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2021-05-01
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762021000100401&tlng=en