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Plasmodium vivax is the most widely spread ofthe four malaria species and the main cause of malaria outside Sub-Sahara Africa. In Central Vietnam, nearly 50% of malaria infections are due to P. vivax, causing a heavy morbidity burden for the local population due to the activation (relapse) of dormant liver forms (hypnozoites) weeks or months after the primary infection. The national guidelines for the radical cure of P. vivax infection was ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infectious disease that remains a major health problem worldwide. It is more prevalent in underdeveloped and developing countries where it kills over 2 million people per year. One third ofthe world is thought to be infected by TB bacilli, and the World Health Organization estimates that nearly 1 billion additional people will become infected by M tuberculosis between 2000 and 2020 (36). In Latin America, Peru has ...

P. vivax is the most widespread among the four malaria species but little is known about the dynamics of infection in the human population and how the reservoir is maintained. The proposed project specifically targets the current lack of tool for a reliable discrimination between new and recrudescent/relapses in P.vivax infections, the main bottleneck to further understanding P.vivax epidemiology. As current molecular and serological techniques ...