Assembled genome of an Ethiopian Plasmodium vivax isolate generated using GridION long-read technology

Francisco Callejas-Hernández; Maria Nikulkova; Nicole Adamski; Guiyun Yan; Delenasaw Yewhalaw; Jane M Carlton

doi:10.1128/mra.00590-24

Assembled genome of an Ethiopian Plasmodium vivax isolate generated using GridION long-read technology

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2024 Oct 10;13(10):e0059024. doi: 10.1128/mra.00590-24. Epub 2024 Sep 16.

Authors

Francisco Callejas-Hernández¹, Maria Nikulkova^{1

2}, Nicole Adamski², Guiyun Yan³, Delenasaw Yewhalaw⁴, Jane M Carlton^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Biology, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, New York, USA.
³ Program in Public Health, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
⁴ Tropical and Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia.

Abstract

Plasmodium vivax causes ~20% of malaria cases in Ethiopia. Here, we report a long-read genome assembly generated from an individual collected in 2022. P. vivax is genetically diverse across endemic regions; thus, the genome assembly of an African isolate is an important resource for the malaria research community.

Keywords: Plasmodium vivax; genome; malaria.

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