In the present study, Duffy blood group genotyping in P. vivax malaria patients from four different
Brazilian endemic areas is reported, exploring significant associations between blood group variants and susceptibility or resistance to malaria.
The present study reports the Duffy blood group genotyping in P. vivax malaria patients from four different
Brazilian endemic areas, exploring these significant phenotypic associations between blood group variants, as well as polymorphic regions of RBC receptors, with susceptibility or resistance to malaria.
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«In the 1950's, the
Brazilian health agencies added chloroquine into cooking salt and distributed it to the population in
endemic areas as an effective way of spreading the inexpensive anti-malarial drug as a prophylactic on a wide scale.
The data obtained in the present study emphasize the importance of the evaluation of Duffy blood group genotypes in malaria
endemic areas of the
Brazilian Amazon region.