title: Tracking malaria parasites in the eradication era.
abstract: As more endemic countries enter the elimination phase, the detection of sporadic malaria infections or outbreaks elicits many questions: (i) are the infections locally acquired or imported? (ii) If imported, where do they come from? (iii) Do outbreak strains have a single or multiple geographic origins? New molecular barcoding methods provide ways to analyze clinical malaria parasite samples and answer these and other crucial questions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 1374, 05508-900 São Paulo (SP), Brazil. Electronic address: muferrei@usp.br.
authors.forename: Marcelo U
authors.initials: MU
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 1374, 05508-900 São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
authors.forename: Priscila T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D058893:DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic / Q000592:standards; D014644:Genetic Variation; D018503:Genome, Protozoan / Q000235:genetics; D008288:Malaria / Q000469:parasitology*; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*
keywords: eradication; genotyping; malaria; microsatellites; single-nucleotide polymorphism