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Variant Plasmodium ovale isolated from a patient infected in Ghana.

Malaria journal (2011-01-25)
David Tordrup, Jakob Virenfeldt, Felicie F Andersen, Eskild Petersen
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Recent data have found that Plasmodium ovale can be separated in two distinct species: classic and variant P. ovale based on multilocus typing of different genes. This study presents a P. ovale isolate from a patient infected in Ghana together with an analysis of the small subunit RNA, cytochrome b, cytochrome c oxidase I, cysteine protease and lactate dehydrogenase genes, which show that the sample is a variant P. ovale and identical or highly similar to variant P. ovale isolated from humans in South-East Asia and Africa, and from a chimpanzee in Cameroon. The split between the variant and classic P. ovale is estimated to have occurred 1.7 million years ago.

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Chloroquine diphosphate salt, powder or crystals, 98.5-101.0% (EP)
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Chloroquine phosphate, Pharmaceutical Secondary Standard; Certified Reference Material