Investigating the cross-species invasion events of monkey malaria parasites into human red blood cells

• Main Author: Devakumar, Aishwarya
• Other Authors: Peter Preiser
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences::Microbiology; Science::Biological sciences::Molecular biology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156864
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a zoonotic malaria parasite, causes potentially severe symptoms and has shown an increasing incidence of cross-species transmissions in Southeast Asia. Despite the growing concerns of P. knowlesi infections in human red blood cells (RBCs), its invasion events and h...