Detection of Plasmodium vivax in a liver sample of a howler-monkey: one evidence more in favour of the identity between Plasmodium simium and P. vivax
Julyana Cerqueira Buery, Ana Maria Ribeiro de Castro Duarte, Filomena Euridice Carvalho de Alencar, C. Furieri, Sérgio Lucena Mendes, Ana Carolina Loss, Creuza Rachel Vicente, Blima Fux, Helder Ricas Rezende, Pedro Cravo, Márcia Melo Medeiros, Ana Paula Arez, Crispim Cerutti
The paper tests a PCR-RFLP protocol to detect Plasmodium vivax in a howler-monkey liver sample and finds it fails to distinguish between Plasmodium simium and P. vivax in the Atlantic Forest region.
bioRxiv · Sep 6, 2020 · PreprintMolecular Biology