Plasmodium knowlesi: reservoir hosts and tracking the emergence in humans and macaques.

Plasmodium knowlesi, a malaria parasite originally thought to be restricted to macaques in Southeast Asia, has recently been recognized as a significant cause of human malaria. Unlike the benign and morphologically similar P. malariae, these parasites can lead to fatal infections. Malaria parasites,...

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Main Authors: Kim-Sung Lee, Paul C S Divis, Siti Khatijah Zakaria, Asmad Matusop, Roynston A Julin, David J Conway, Janet Cox-Singh, Balbir Singh
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/54fce7d77dd84ade92f302f3c4349034
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