TY - GEN AU - Mendes, Cristina AU - Dias, Fernanda AU - Figueiredo, Joana AU - Gonzalez-Mora, Vicenta AU - Ochando, Jordi AU - de Sousa, Bruno AU - do Rosário, Virgílio E AU - Benito, Agustin AU - Berzosa, Pedro AU - Arez, Ana Paula PY - 2011 DO - 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001192 SN - 1935-2735 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/6613 AB - BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax shows a small prevalence in West and Central Africa due to the high prevalence of Duffy negative people. However, Duffy negative individuals infected with P. vivax have been reported in areas of high prevalence of Duffy... LA - eng PB - Public Library of Science (PLOS) KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Angola KW - Animals KW - Anopheles KW - Child KW - Child, Preschool KW - Disease Vectors KW - Duffy Blood-Group System KW - Female KW - Guinea KW - Humans KW - Infant KW - Malaria, Vivax KW - Male KW - Plasmodium vivax KW - Polymerase Chain Reaction KW - Protozoan Proteins KW - RNA, Protozoan KW - RNA, Ribosomal KW - Receptors, Cell Surface KW - Young Adult TI - Duffy negative antigen is no longer a barrier to Plasmodium vivax-molecular evidences from the African West Coast (Angola and Equatorial Guinea) TY - research article ER -