The overwhelming dominance of Duffy blood group negativity among most people living in
sub-Saharan Africa has been considered the basis of their protection from endemic …

Malaria therapy, experimental, and epidemiological studies have shown that erythrocyte
Duffy blood group-negative people, largely of African ancestry, are resistant to erythrocyte …

Plasmodium vivax is the main cause of malarial disease in Asia and South America.
Plasmodium vivax infection was thought to be absent in African populations who are Duffy …

It is likely that Plasmodium vivax diverged∼ 2 million years ago from a group of malaria
parasites which are now endemic in monkeys and apes in southern Asia. In those times …

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 …

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 This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of Plasmodium vivax and
polymorphisms in the Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines (DARC) gene in patients with …

The Duffy blood group is a critical receptor for Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) invasion of red
blood cells, and consequently, P. vivax infections were considered rare in sub-Saharan …

Background Due to the recently observed rise in Plasmodium vivax incidence in Sudan and
reported transmission in Duffy-negative individuals; we aimed to assess the possibility of P …

Background 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 …