| Literature DB >> 19803728 |
Richard Culleton1, Mathieu Ndounga, Fadile Yildiz Zeyrek, Cevayir Coban, Prisca Nadine Casimiro, Satoru Takeo, Takafumi Tsuboi, Anjali Yadava, Richard Carter, Kazuyuki Tanabe.
Abstract
Plasmodium vivax is not thought to be transmitted in western and central Africa, because of the very high prevalence of the red blood cell Duffy-negative phenotype in local populations, a condition which is thought to confer complete resistance against blood infection with P. vivax. There are, however, persistent reports of travelers returning from this region with P. vivax infections. To investigate whether transmission occurs in this region, the presence of antibodies specific to P. vivax preerythrocytic-stage antigens was assessed in individuals from the Republic of the Congo. A total of 55 (13%) of 409 samples tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay had antibodies to P. vivax-specific antigens.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 19803728 DOI： 10.1086/644510
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect Dis ISSN： 0022-1899 Impact factor: 5.226