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Open Access 01-12-2011 | Case report

Variant Plasmodium ovale isolated from a patient infected in Ghana

Authors: David Tordrup, Jakob Virenfeldt, Felicie F Andersen, Eskild Petersen

Published in: Malaria Journal | Issue 1/2011

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Abstract

Recent data have found that Plasmodium ovale can be separated in two distinct species: classic and variant P. ovale based on multilocus typing of different genes. This study presents a P. ovale isolate from a patient infected in Ghana together with an analysis of the small subunit RNA, cytochrome b, cytochrome c oxidase I, cysteine protease and lactate dehydrogenase genes, which show that the sample is a variant P. ovale and identical or highly similar to variant P. ovale isolated from humans in South-East Asia and Africa, and from a chimpanzee in Cameroon. The split between the variant and classic P. ovale is estimated to have occurred 1.7 million years ago.
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Metadata
Title
Variant Plasmodium ovale isolated from a patient infected in Ghana
Authors
David Tordrup
Jakob Virenfeldt
Felicie F Andersen
Eskild Petersen
Publication date
01-12-2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Malaria Journal / Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1475-2875
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-15

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