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JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 205, Issue 4, Pages 680-683Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir806
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- Wellcome Trust of Great Britain
- National Science and Technology Development Agency
- Office of the Higher Education Commission
- Mahidol University under the National Research Universities Initiative
- Wellcome Trust [080867/Z/06/Z]
- Wellcome Trust [080867/Z/06/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
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In a prospective infant cohort, 21 infants developed Plasmodium vivax malaria during their first year. Twelve of their mothers also had vivax malaria in the corresponding pregnancies or postpartum period. The genotypes of the maternal and infant infections were all different. Eight of the 12 mothers and 9 of the 21 infants had recurrent infections. Relapse parasite genotypes were different to the initial infection in 13 of 20 (65%) mothers compared with 5 of 24 (21%) infants (P = .02). The first P. vivax relapses of life are usually genetically homologous, whereas relapse in adults may result from activation of heterologous latent hypnozoites acquired from previous inoculations.
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