Nature Communications (May 2021)

Distinctive genetic structure and selection patterns in Plasmodium vivax from South Asia and East Africa

  • Ernest Diez Benavente,
  • Emilia Manko,
  • Jody Phelan,
  • Monica Campos,
  • Debbie Nolder,
  • Diana Fernandez,
  • Gabriel Velez-Tobon,
  • Alberto Tobón Castaño,
  • Jamille G. Dombrowski,
  • Claudio R. F. Marinho,
  • Anna Caroline C. Aguiar,
  • Dhelio Batista Pereira,
  • Kanlaya Sriprawat,
  • Francois Nosten,
  • Robert Moon,
  • Colin J. Sutherland,
  • Susana Campino,
  • Taane G. Clark

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23422-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The genetic diversity of Plasmodium vivax strains in South Asia isn’t well described. Here, the authors sequence P. vivax from returning UK travelers and establish South Asian isolates as subpopulation distinct from East African and South East Asian isolates.