Admixture in Humans of Two Divergent Plasmodium knowlesi Populations Associated with Different Macaque Host Species

• Main Authors: Paul, C.S, Balbir, Singh, Fread, Anderios, Shamilah, Hisam, Asmad, matusop, Clemens, H. M. Kocken, Samuel, A. Assefal, Craig, W. Duffy, David, J. Conway
• Format: E-Article
• Language: English
• Published: Researchgate 2015
• Subjects: RB Pathology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/8411/1/Admixture%20in%20Humans%20of%20Two%20Divergent%20plasmodium%20%28abstract%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/8411/; http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1004888
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Human malaria parasite species were originally acquired from other primate hosts and subsequently became endemic, then spread throughout large parts of the world. A major zoonosis is now occurring with Plasmodium knowlesi from macaques in Southeast Asia, with a recent acceleration in numbers of rep...