In Vitro Culture, Drug Sensitivity, and Transcriptome of Plasmodium Vivax Hypnozoites

The unique relapsing nature of Plasmodium vivax infection is a major barrier to malaria eradication. Upon infection, dormant liver-stage forms, hypnozoites, linger for weeks to months and then relapse to cause recurrent blood-stage infection. Very little is known about hypnozoite biology; definitive...

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Main Authors: Gural, Nil, Mancio Silva, Liliana, Miller, Alex B, Galstian, Ani, Butty, Vincent L, Levine, Stuart S, Patrapuvich, Rapatbhorn, Desai, Salil P, Mikolajczak, Sebastian A, Kappe, Stefan H. I., Fleming, Heather, March-Riera, Sandra, Sattabongkot, Jetsumon, Bhatia, Sangeeta N
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121178