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Mosquito infection studies with Aotus monkeys and humans infected with the Chesson strain of Plasmodiun vivaxWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 86:398-402. 2012..Of several species of owl monkeys, Aotus vociferans was infected at a higher frequency. On the basis of oocyst counts, Anopheles dirus were the most susceptible and An. maculatus were the least susceptible of the mosquito species tested...- Malaria chemoprophylaxis and the serologic response to measles and diphtheria-tetanus-whole-cell pertussis vaccinesJennifer B Rosen
Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Malar J 4:53. 2005..The effect of malaria chemoprophylaxis on vaccine response was studied following administration of measles vaccines and diphtheria-tetanus-whole cell pertussis (DTP) vaccines... - Epidemiologic aspects of the malaria transmission cycle in an area of very low incidence in BrazilCrispim Cerutti
Department of Social Medicine, Biomedical Center, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Maruípe, Vitoria ES, Brazil
Malar J 6:33. 2007..Extra-Amazonian autochthonous Plasmodium vivax infections have been reported in mountainous regions surrounded by the Atlantic Forest in Espírito Santo state, Brazil... - Adaptation of a multi-drug resistant strain of Plasmodium falciparum from Peru to Aotus lemurinus griseimembra, A. nancymaae, and A. vociferans monkeysWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention USPHS DHHS, 4770 Buford Highway, Chamblee, GA 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:261-5. 2007..Genetic mutations in crt, dhfr, dhps, and cytochrome b genes conferring drug resistance were also determined for this Peruvian strain of P. falciparum... - Studies on sporozoite-induced and chronic infections with Plasmodium fragile in Macaca mulatta and New World monkeysWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Animal Resources Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Parasitol 92:1019-26. 2006..The mean corpuscular hemoglobin value decreased to its lowest level at day 87 and then returned to preinfection level... - Aotus nancymaae as a potential model for the testing of anti-sporozoite and liver stage vaccines against Plasmodium falciparumWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Animal Resources Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 74:422-4. 2006..The data obtained from these infections indicate that A. nancymaae can be considered a suitable host model when combined with the Santa Lucia strain of P. falciparum for the testing of candidate anti-sporozoite and liver stage vaccines... - A case-control auditory evaluation of patients treated with artemether-lumefantrineRobert Hutagalung
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand
Am J Trop Med Hyg 74:211-4. 2006..There were no differences in the test results between cases and controls. There was no neurophysiologic evidence of auditory brainstem toxicity that could be attributed to artemether-lumefantrine in this study population... - Preliminary observations on the efficacy of a recombinant multistage Plasmodium falciparum vaccine in Aotus nancymai monkeysWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, U S Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 73:686-93. 2005..None of the other 5 antigen-adjuvant combinations were able to provide discernable levels of protection based on log(parasitemia) and log(cumulative parasitemia) to Day 11... - Plasmodium simium and Saimiri boliviensis as a model system for testing candidate vaccines against Plasmodium vivaxWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 73:644-8. 2005..vivax was 26,337/microL versus 56,362/microL for those previously infected with New World P. vivax, possibly suggesting a closer antigenic relationship between P. simium and the Old World parasites... - Plasmodium ovale: parasite and diseaseWilliam E Collins
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Parasitic Diseases, Malaria Branch, Chamblee, Georgia 30341, USA
Clin Microbiol Rev 18:570-81. 2005..There is no evidence to suggest that P. ovale is closely related phylogenetically to any other of the primate malaria parasites that have been examined... - Plasmodium malariae: parasite and diseaseWilliam E Collins
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne and Enteric Diseases, Division of Parasitic Diseases, Chamblee, GA 30341, USA
Clin Microbiol Rev 20:579-92. 2007..The essential lesions are a thickening of the glomerular basement membrane and endocapillary cell proliferation. Studies of monkeys infected with P. malariae indicate the same pathology as that demonstrated in humans... - Isolates of Plasmodium inui adapted to Macaca mulatta monkeys and laboratory-reared anopheline mosquitoes for experimental studyWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Animal Resources Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Parasitol 93:1061-9. 2007..malariae. Presented here are descriptions of the isolation, passage histories into Macaca mulatta monkeys, and infectivity to different Anopheles spp. mosquitoes of 18 different isolates of this parasite... - Plasmodium knowlesi: a malaria parasite of monkeys and humansWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Annu Rev Entomol 57:107-21. 2012..The parasite was a major monkey animal model for developing antimalarial vaccines and investigations of the biology of parasite invasion. P. knowlesi is the first monkey malaria parasite genome to be sequenced and annotated... - Observations on the Uganda I strain of Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium brasilianum in Aotus and Saimiri monkeys and Anopheles mosquitoesWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Parasitol 96:329-39. 2010..brasilianum in S. boliviensis monkeys may be a better reflection of the relationship of P. malariae in the human host... - Infection of mosquitoes with Plasmodium falciparum by feeding on humans and on Aotus monkeysWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Public Health Service, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 81:529-33. 2009..nancymaae. The pattern of infection for mosquitoes fed on splenectomized Aotus monkeys was similar to that obtained by feeding on humans, but the intensity, based on oocyst/(+)gut, was much lower... - Plasmodium fieldi: observations on the Hackeri and ABI strains in Macaca mulatta monkeys and mosquitoesWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Scientific Resources Branch, National Center for Vector Borne and Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Public Health Service, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 80:739-44. 2009..Relapses occurred between two and eight times during a 1-year period. P. fieldi has potential for testing prophylactic and radical curative drugs... - The Santa Lucia strain of Plasmodium falciparum in Aotus monkeysWilliam E Collins
National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne, and Enteric Diseases, National Center for Preparedness, Detection and Control of Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 80:536-40. 2009..For the production of infective mosquitoes for vaccine challenge studies, A. l. griseimembra and A. vociferans were the most predictable hosts... - Studies on the Salvador I strain of Plasmodium vivax in non-human primates and anopheline mosquitoesWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne and Enteric Diseases, Geographic Medicine and Health Promotion and Animal Resources Branches, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 80:228-35. 2009..The S. boliviensis monkey and Salvador I strain seems suitable for the testing of sporozoite and liver stage vaccines but not for blood-stage vaccines against P. vivax unless adapted further in spleen-intact Saimiri boliviensis monkeys... - The Chesson strain of plasmodium vivax in humans and different species of Aotus monkeysWilliam E Collins
Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne and Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control andPrevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Chamblee, GA 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 80:152-9. 2009..lemurinus griseimembra, and to a somewhat lesser extent A. vociferans, can mimic the course of Chesson malaria in humans regarding parasitemia and mosquito infection... - Transmission of different strains of Plasmodium cynomolgi to Aotus nancymaae monkeys and relapseWilliam E Collins
National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne and Enteric Diseases, and Animal Resources Branch, Natl Center for Preparedness, Detection and Control of Infectious Diseases, CDC, U S PHS, DHHS, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Parasitol 95:349-52. 2009..Importantly, relapse was demonstrated in 5 of 5 sporozoite-induced infections with the Rossan strain following treatment with chloroquine... - Observations on the sporozoite transmission of Plasmodium vivax to monkeysWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Parasitol 94:287-8. 2008..Saimiri boliviensis monkeys were infected via sporozoites with the Salvador I strain of Plasmodium vivax that had been stored frozen for periods ranging from 12 to 5,312 days. Prepatent periods ranged from 16 to 53 days... - Observations on the Vietnam Palo Alto strain of Plasmodium vivax in two species of Aotus monkeysWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Disease and Animal Resources Branch, National Center for Infectious Disease, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Parasitol 91:461-3. 2005..lemurinus griseimembra, with a prepatent period of 31 days. It is estimated that between 1.5 x 10(8) and 1.6 x 10(9) parasites can be removed from an infected animal for molecular or diagnostic antigenic studies... - Studies on two strains of Plasmodium cynomolgi in New World and Old World monkeys and mosquitoesWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Animal Resources Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Parasitol 91:280-3. 2005..The Smithsonian strain was transmitted via sporozoites to 1 A. lemurinus griseimembra and 9 A. nancymai monkeys. Prepatent periods ranged from 12 to 31 days... - Experimental infection of Anopheles farauti with different species of PlasmodiumWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U S Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Parasitol 88:295-8. 2002..stephensi, An. gambiae, An. freeborni, and An. dirus with the Salvador I strain of P. vivax, but more susceptible than An. stephensi and An. gambiae to infection with the coindigenous Indonesian XIX strain... - Plasmodium inui shortii: studies in old world and new world monkeysWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Vector Borne, Zoonotic, and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 80:160-4. 2009..5 days. In rhesus monkeys, mean maximum parasite counts for intact animals were 181,970/muL; for splenectomized animals, the mean maximum parasite count was 1,167,890/muL... - Potential of the Panama strain of Plasmodium vivax for the testing of malarial vaccines in Aotus nancymai monkeysWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Animal Resources Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Chamblee, Georgia 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 67:454-8. 2002..Anopheles dirus, Anopheles freeborni, Anopheles stephensi, and Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquitoes were readily infected with the Panama strain... - A retrospective examination of anemia during infection of humans with Plasmodium vivaxWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 68:410-2. 2003..An equilibrium appeared to be established between weeks 4 and 6. Decreases in Hb concentrations were greatest following the first week of parasitemia. Total restoration to preinfection levels did not occur during persistent parasitemia... - A retrospective examination of reinfection of humans with Plasmodium vivaxWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 70:642-4. 2004..4 degrees F for the secondary infection compared with 105.8 degrees F during the primary infections versus 105.6 degrees F for the secondary infection in the heterologous patients... - A retrospective examination of the effect of fever and microgametocyte count on mosquito infection on humans infected with Plasmodium vivaxWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 70:638-41. 2004..8 degrees F) fever produced somewhat higher rates, and persons with no fever had the highest levels of infection at all parasitemia levels greater than 1,500/microL.. - Additional observations on the sporozoite transmission of Plasmodium knowlesi to monkeysWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Animal Resources Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Parasitol 90:866-7. 2004..After frozen storage for 11 yr and 5 mo, infections were induced in S. boliviensis with prepatent periods of 10-13 days... - Rio Meta strain of Plasmodium vivax in New World monkeys and anopheline mosquitoesWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Animal Resources Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Parasitol 90:685-8. 2004..Infections were more readily obtained by feeding on A. L. griseimembra than on A. nancymai. Transmission through sporozoites was obtained in an A. l. griseimembra monkey after a prepatent period of 24 days... - Observations on the exoerythrocytic stages of different isolates of Plasmodium cynomolgi in hepatocytes of New World aotus and Saimiri monkeysJoAnn S Sullivan
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Scientific Resources Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Parasitol 92:202-5. 2006..Liver stage parasites were demonstrated in all 9 animals; 7 of these animals also produced blood stages after prepatent periods of 9 to 23 days... - Assessment of transmission-blocking activity of candidate Pvs25 vaccine using gametocytes from chimpanzeesWilliam E Collins
Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 74:215-21. 2006..vivax derived from infections induced in chimpanzees can contribute to the selection of appropriate constructs, formulations, and immunization regimens for the development of effective transmission-blocking vaccines... - Adaptation of a strain of Plasmodium falciparum from Ghana to Aotus lemurinus griseimembra, A. nancymai, and A. vociferans monkeysJoAnn S Sullivan
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Animal Resources Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 69:593-600. 2003..Sporozoite transmission was accomplished in two splenectomized A. nancymai with prepatent periods of 22 and 25 days. The Ghana III/CDC strain of P. falciparum is susceptible to treatment with chloroquine and mefloquine... - The development of exoerythrocytic stages of Plasmodium inui shortti in New World monkeysJoAnn S Sullivan
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Parasitol 89:637-9. 2003..Exoerythrocytic stages have also been observed in the liver tissue of Saimiri monkeys. The availability of the complete transmission cycle provides an additional resource for immunologic and vaccine studies... - Susceptibility of Anopheles farauti to infection with different species of PlasmodiumDouglas Nace
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Public Health Service, Chamblee, GA 30341, USA
J Am Mosq Control Assoc 20:272-6. 2004..freeborni and An. stephensi. This colony adapted well to feeding on monkeys and was infected with New World and Old World strains of P. vivax and P. falciparum, P. ovale, P. cynomolgi, and P. brasilianum... - Nonhuman primate models. II. Infection of Saimiri and Aotus monkeys with Plasmodium vivaxWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chamblee, GA, USA
Methods Mol Med 72:85-92. 2002 - A retrospective examination of sporozoite-induced and trophozoite-induced infections with Plasmodium ovale: development of parasitologic and clinical immunity during primary infectionWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta Georgia 30341-3724, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 66:492-502. 2002..As shown, the infection rate increased with the density of gametocytes even though 48 (23.4%) of 205 lots of mosquitoes fed when no gametocytes were detected were infected... - Infection of Aotus and Saimiri monkeys with Plasmodium gonderiJoAnn S Sullivan
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Parasitol 88:422-5. 2002..gonderi, but daily blood film examination during a 60-day observation period failed to detect blood stages of the parasite... - Adaptation of Plasmodium vivax to growth in owl monkeys (Aotus nancymai)Allison M Williams
Animal Resources Branch, Scientific Resources Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Comp Med 55:528-32. 2005.... - A retrospective examination of mosquito infection on humans infected with Plasmodium falciparumWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 68:366-71. 2003..Mosquito infection rates were similar to those seen in studies with splenectomized Aotus monkeys experimentally infected with P. falciparum... - Nonhuman primate models. I. Nonhuman primate host-parasite combinationsWilliam E Collins
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chamblee, GA, USA
Methods Mol Med 72:77-84. 2002 - A monkey's tale: the origin of Plasmodium vivax as a human malaria parasiteAnanias A Escalante
Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chamblee, GA 30341, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:1980-5. 2005..vivax populations and the phylogeny of the genus Plasmodium... - The clinical-grade 42-kilodalton fragment of merozoite surface protein 1 of Plasmodium falciparum strain FVO expressed in Escherichia coli protects Aotus nancymai against challenge with homologous erythrocytic-stage parasitesChristian A Darko
Department of Immunology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
Infect Immun 73:287-97. 2005..Soluble MSP1(42) (FVO) expressed in E. coli offers excellent promise as a component of a vaccine against erythrocytic-stage falciparum malaria... - Plasmodium malariae infection boosts Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte productionF Ellis McKenzie
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 67:411-4. 2002..falciparum by prior or concurrent P. malariae infection but diminished or unaffected in P. malariae by P. falciparum. Conversely, asexual-form production was diminished in P. malariae but unaffected in P. falciparum... - Plasmodium vivax blood-stage dynamicsF Ellis McKenzie
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
J Parasitol 88:521-35. 2002..Successful feeds occurred on average 4.7 days later in an infection than did failures. Parasitemia was lower in homologous reinfection, gametocytemia lower or absent... - A comparative study of the genetic diversity of the 42kDa fragment of the merozoite surface protein 1 in Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivaxM Andreina Pacheco
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, P O Box 874501, Tempe, AZ 85287 4501, United States
Infect Genet Evol 7:180-7. 2007..The opposite pattern was observed in P. vivax. Our results suggest different roles of this antigen in the host-parasite immune interaction in each of the major human malarial parasites... - Protection induced by Plasmodium falciparum MSP1(42) is strain-specific, antigen and adjuvant dependent, and correlates with antibody responsesJeffrey A Lyon
Division Malaria Vaccine Development, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2830. 2008..Development of an effective MSP1(42) vaccine against erythrocytic stage P. falciparum infection will depend not only on antigen quality, but also upon the selection of an optimal adjuvant component... - Diagnosing infection levels of four human malaria parasite species by a polymerase chain reaction/ligase detection reaction fluorescent microsphere-based assayDavid T McNamara
Cente for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Researve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 74:413-21. 2006..Application of this multiplex Plasmodium species LDR-FMA diagnostic assay will increase the speed, accuracy, and reliability of diagnosing human Plasmodium species infections in epidemiologic studies of complex malaria-endemic settings... - Potent immunogenicity of DNA vaccines encoding Plasmodium vivax transmission-blocking vaccine candidates Pvs25 and Pvs28-evaluation of homologous and heterologous antigen-delivery prime-boost strategyDarin Kongkasuriyachai
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Vaccine 22:3205-13. 2004..These results demonstrate potent immunogenicity of DNA vaccines encoding Pvs25 and Pvs28 and warrant further evaluation in non-human primates... - Gametocytemia and fever in human malaria infectionsF Ellis McKenzie
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Parasitol 93:627-33. 2007..falciparum and P. vivax infections. Fevers and detected gametocytemia coincided more often than expected by chance with P. vivax and P. ovale; fever temperature and gametocyte density were not correlated in infections with any species... - Further understanding the nature of relapse of Plasmodium vivax infectionWilliam E Collins
J Infect Dis 195:919-20. 2007 - Immunization of Aotus monkeys with a functional domain of the Plasmodium falciparum variant antigen induces protection against a lethal parasite lineDror I Baruch
Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:3860-5. 2002..The level of protection and the evidence of boosting during infection encourage further exploration of this concept for malaria vaccine development... - Parasite prevalence: a static measure of dynamic infectionsWendy Prudhomme O'Meara
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, 16 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:246-9. 2007..Our results show that parasite prevalence may be underestimated by 20% or more, depending on the sensitivity of parasite detection... - Extensive microsatellite diversity in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivaxNadira D Karunaweera
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Gene 410:105-12. 2008..Parasite relapses, which may extend the duration of P. vivax carriage in humans, are suggested to facilitate the spread of strains across continents, breaking down any pre-existing geographic structure... - Diagnosis of malaria by magnetic deposition microscopyPeter A Zimmerman
Case Western Reserve University, Center for Global Health and Diseases, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 7286, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 74:568-72. 2006..These results provide insight regarding new strategies for performing malaria blood smear microscopy...