Initiatives to eradicate malaria have a good impact on P. falciparum malaria worldwide. P.
vivax, however, still presents significant difficulties. This is due to its unique biological traits …

Erythrocytes are formed from the enucleation of erythroblasts in the bone marrow, and as
erythrocytes develop from immature reticulocytes into mature normocytes, they undergo …

Background The most recent global estimates of the number of pregnancies at risk of
Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria infection are from 2007. To inform …

The erythrocyte silent Duffy blood group phenotype in Africans is thought to confer
resistance to Plasmodium vivax blood-stage infection. However, recent studies report P …

P. malariae and P. ovale with and without P. falciparum, 4-8 cases of P. vivax have been
thought to be absent in sSA due to the erythrocyte silent Duffy-negative phenotype across a …

Background The global battle against malaria is facing formidable challenges, particularly in
controlling Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale, whose cases have not been reduced …

Abstract Background Malaria elimination in Senegal requires accurate diagnosis of all
Plasmodium species. Plasmodium falciparum is the most prevalent species in Senegal …

The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax remains a major global public health challenge, and
no vaccine is approved for use in humans. Here, we assessed whether P. vivax strain …

Plasmodium vivax causes the second highest number of malaria morbidity and mortality
cases in humans. Several biological traits of this parasite species, including the formation of …

The first discovery of Plasmodium vivax infections in Senegal used archived patients' sera in
place of blood pellet, the preferred specimen for the molecular diagnosis of Plasmodium …