Johanna Helena Kattenberg, Pieter Monsieurs, Julie De Meyer, Katlijn De Meulenaere, Erin Sauve, Thaís C de Oliveira, Marcelo U Ferreira, Dionicia Gamboa, Anna Rosanas-Urgell
Pathogen genomic epidemiology has the potential to provide a deep understanding of population dynamics, facilitating strategic planning of interventions, monitoring their impact, and enabling timely responses, and thereby supporting control and elimination efforts of parasitic tropical diseases. Plasmodium vivax , responsible for most malaria cases outside Africa, shows high genetic diversity at the population level, driven by factors like sub-patent infections, a hidden reservoir of hypnozoites, and early transmission to mosquitoes...
March 2024: Ecology and Evolution