| molecular evidence of plasmodium vivax mono and mixed malaria parasite infections in duffy-negative native cameroonians. | the malaria parasite plasmodium vivax is known to be majorly endemic to asian and latin american countries with no or very few reports of africans infected with this parasite. since the human duffy antigens act as receptors for p. vivax to invade human rbcs and africans are generally duffy-negative, non-endemicity of p. vivax in africa has been attributed to this fact. however, recent reports describing p. vivax infections in duffy-negative africans from west and central parts of africa have bee ... | 2014 | 25084090 |
| molecular evidence of plasmodium vivax infection in duffy negative symptomatic individuals from dschang, west cameroon. | plasmodium vivax infection is known to be rare in west/central africa, the most accepted explanation being the lack of expression of erythroid duffy antigen in the local human populations. duffy negativity prevents the parasite to exploit the entry mechanism on the red blood cell surface. however, there are a growing number of reported vivax infections in duffy-negative individuals. data on p. vivax circulation in cameroon are limited. the aim of the study was to evaluate the p. vivax presence, ... | 2017 | 28196496 |