Microsatellite DNA Analysis Revealed a Drastic Genetic Change of Plasmodium vivax Population in the Republic of Korea During 2002 and 2003

Moritoshi Iwagami; Seung-Young Hwang; So-Hee Kim; So-Jung Park; Ga-Young Lee; Emilie Louise Akiko Matsumoto-Takahashi; Weon-Gyu Kho; Shigeyuki Kano

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002522

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Microsatellite DNA Analysis Revealed a Drastic Genetic Change of Plasmodium vivax Population in the Republic of Korea During 2002 and 2003

Moritoshi Iwagami,

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Seung-Young Hwang,

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Inje University College of Medicine, Busanjin-gu, Busan, Korea
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So-Hee Kim,

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease and Malaria, Paik Institute of Clinical Research, Inje University, Busanjin-gu, Busan, Korea
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So-Jung Park,

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease and Malaria, Paik Institute of Clinical Research, Inje University, Busanjin-gu, Busan, Korea
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Ga-Young Lee,

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Inje University College of Medicine, Busanjin-gu, Busan, Korea
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Emilie Louise Akiko Matsumoto-Takahashi,

Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Weon-Gyu Kho ,

* E-mail: wgkho@inje.ac.kr (WGK); kano@ri.ncgm.go.jp (SK)

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Inje University College of Medicine, Busanjin-gu, Busan, Korea, Department of Infectious Disease and Malaria, Paik Institute of Clinical Research, Inje University, Busanjin-gu, Busan, Korea
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Shigeyuki Kano

* E-mail: wgkho@inje.ac.kr (WGK); kano@ri.ncgm.go.jp (SK)

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Microsatellite DNA Analysis Revealed a Drastic Genetic Change of Plasmodium vivax Population in the Republic of Korea During 2002 and 2003

Moritoshi Iwagami,
Seung-Young Hwang,
So-Hee Kim,
So-Jung Park,
Ga-Young Lee,
Emilie Louise Akiko Matsumoto-Takahashi,
Weon-Gyu Kho,
Shigeyuki Kano

Published: October 31, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002522

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