Genomic analysis of local variation and recent evolution in Plasmodium vivax

• Main Authors: Richard D. Pearson, Roberto Amato, Sarah Auburn, Olivo Miotto, Jacob Almagro-Garcia, Chanaki Amaratunga, Seila Suon, Sivanna Mao, Rintis Noviyanti, Hidayat Trimarsanto, Jutta Marfurt, Nicholas M. Anstey, Timothy William, MacIej F. Boni, Christiane Dolecek, Hien Tinh Tran, Nicholas J. White, Pascal Michon, Peter Siba, Livingstone Tavul, Gabrielle Harrison, Alyssa Barry, Ivo Mueller, Marcelo U. Ferreira, Nadira Karunaweera, Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia, Qi Gao, Christina Hubbart, Lee Hart, Ben Jeffery, Eleanor Drury, Daniel Mead, Mihir Kekre, Susana Campino, Magnus Manske, Victoria J. Cornelius, Bronwyn MacInnis, Kirk A. Rockett, Alistair Miles, Julian C. Rayner, Rick M. Fairhurst, Francois Nosten, Ric N. Price, Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
• Other Authors: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/42947
• Institution: Mahidol University

© 2016 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved. The widespread distribution and relapsing nature of Plasmodium vivax infection present major challenges for the elimination of malaria. To characterize the genetic diversity of this parasite in individual infections and across the population, we perfo...