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Rapid antigen detection tests (RADT) have been used for many years to diagnose and distinguish malaria caused by these two parasites. P. falciparum malaria can single-handedly be diagnosed using an RADT, which detects the unique P. falciparum specific histidine-rich protein 2 (HRP2). Unfortunately, there is no RADT that can single-handedly diagnose P. vivax malaria because no specific marker of this parasite has yet been described. Here, we report the discovery of a unique P. vivax protein (Vir14, NCBI Reference Sequence: XP_001612449.1) that has no sequence similarity with proteins of P. falciparum and no significant similarities with proteins of other species of Plasmodium. 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