Acceso abierto·Documento·2015·Inglés

Clonal population expansion in an outbreak of Plasmodium falciparum on the northwest coast of Ecuador

Fabián E. Saénz; Lindsay Morton; Sheila Okoth; Gabriela Paola Valenzuela Sánchez; Claudia A. Vera-Arias; Eileen Vélez-Álvarez; Naomi W. Lucchi; L. E. Castro; Venkatachalam Udhayakumar

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Resumen

This study indicates that parasites from a single clonal lineage largely contributed to this outbreak and this lineage was found to be genetically related to a lineage previously reported in the Peruvian coast and historical Ecuadorian parasites.

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Fabián E. Saénz, & Lindsay Morton, & Sheila Okoth, & Gabriela Paola Valenzuela Sánchez, & Claudia A. Vera-Arias, & Eileen Vélez-Álvarez, & Naomi W. Lucchi, & L. E. Castro, & Venkatachalam Udhayakumar (2015). Clonal population expansion in an outbreak of Plasmodium falciparum on the northwest coast of Ecuador. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-1019-2