Plasmodium vivax readiness to transmit: implication for malaria eradication.

Affiliation

Department of Global Health (GH) & Center for Drug Discovery and Innovation (CDDI), College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA. [Email]

Abstract

The lack of a continuous long-term in vitro culture system for Plasmodium vivax severely limits our knowledge of pathophysiology of the most widespread malaria parasite. To gain direct understanding of P. vivax human infections, we used Next Generation Sequencing data mining to unravel parasite in vivo expression profiles for P. vivax, and P. falciparum as comparison.

Keywords

Disease transmission,Malaria,Mathematical modelling,Plasmodium vivax,RNAseq,