Plasmodium knowlesi as a model system for characterising Plasmodium vivax drug resistance candidate genes.
Plasmodium vivax causes the majority of malaria outside Africa, but is poorly understood at a cellular level partly due to technical difficulties in maintaining it in in vitro culture conditions. In the past decades, drug resistant P. vivax parasites have emerged, mainly in Southeast Asia, but while...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-06-01
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Series: | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007470 |