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Guest Editorial

Challenges for Plasmodium vivax malaria elimination in the genomics era

Marcelo U. FerreiraDepartment of ParasitologyInstitute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Thaís Crippa de OliveiraDepartment of ParasitologyInstitute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Pages 89-90 | Published online: 06 May 2015

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