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Volume 6
Journal of Infectious Diseases and Therapy
ISSN: 2332-0877
Infection Congress 2018
March 01-02, 2018
March 01-02, 2018 Berlin, Germany
5
th
International Congress on
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
J Infect Dis Ther 2018, Volume 6
DOI: 10.4172/2332-0877-C1-039
Plasmodium vivax
population structure in malaria endemic area of southern Iran
Aliehsan Heidari
1
and
Hossein Keshavarz
2
1
Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
2
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
M
alaria is an important parasitic disease that consider as a threat of public health in worldwide.
Plasmodium vivax
causes
malaria infection mainly in Asia, South America and Oceania. In Iran, as member of east Mediterranean region office
(EMRO),
Plasmodium vivax
and Plasmodium falciparum are responsible of malaria that occur mainly in south and southeast of
the country. This area has common borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Plasmodium vivax
accounts as agent of more than
90% of malaria cases in Iran. The access to enough information about population structure of
Plasmodium vivax
is necessary
for developing malaria vaccine and epidemiological studies. The present study was conducted to determine population genetic
diversity of
Plasmodium vivax
in southeast of Iran. Blood was taken from symptomatic malaria patients. The nested PCR were
performed to amplify the two merozoite antigens of
Plasmodium vivax
. The products of PCR were sequenced. The MEGA 5 and
DNASP software were used for the genetic analysis. The nucleotide sequences were deposited in world gene bank. The findings
of present study showed genetic diversity in
Plasmodium vivax
population in the hypo-endemic area for malaria in Iran
.
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