A comparison of the clinical, laboratory and epidemiological features of two divergent subpopulations of Plasmodium knowlesi

• Main Authors: Hu, Ting Huey, Rosli, Nawal, Mohamad, Dayang Shuaishah Awang, Kadir, Khamisah Abdul, Ching, Zhen Hao, Chai, Yaw Hung, Ideris, Nur Naqibah, Ting, Linda S.C., Dihom, Adeline A., Kong, Sing Ling, Wong, Edmund K.Y., Sia, Jenny Euk Huong, Ti, Tiana, Chai, Irene P.F., Tang, Wei Yieng, Hii, King Ching, Divis, Paul Cliff Simon, Davis, T.M.E, Daneshvar, Cyrus, Singh, Balbir
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2021
• Subjects: QR Microbiology; R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36547/1/plasmodium1.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36547/; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99644-8; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99644-8
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Plasmodium knowlesi, a simian malaria parasite responsible for all recent indigenous cases of malaria in Malaysia, infects humans throughout Southeast Asia. There are two genetically distinct subpopulations of Plasmodium knowlesi in Malaysian Borneo, one associated with long-tailed macaques (termed...