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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Colômbia
Hernando Antonio del Portillo Obando in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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In spite of intense research, malaria remains the most devastating parasitic disease of mankind with ca. 200-300 annual million cases and 1.7-2.4 million deaths mostly in children below five years of age. In the particular case of Brazil, the Amazon region is responsible for almost all the clinical malaria attacks, which last year accounted for more than 600,000 cases with a socio-economi…
In the area of molecular biology, we have constructed a genomic DNA library of P. vivax (the most prevalent malarial parasite in Latin America and responsible for 80 million annual cases worldwide), in yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) with parasite material obtained from a single infected patient in the Brazilian Amazon. Generating an unlimited source of parasite material was of partic…
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