Two nonrecombining sympatric forms of the human malaria parasite plasmodium ovale occur globally

• Main Authors: Colin J. Sutherland, Naowarat Tanomsing, Debbie Nolder, Mary Oguike, Charlie Jennison, Sasithon Pukrittayakamee, Christiane Dolecek, Tran Tinh Hien, Virgilio E. Do Rosário, Ana Paula Arez, João Pinto, Pascal Michon, Ananias A. Escalante, Francois Nosten, Martina Burke, Rogan Lee, Marie Blaze, Thomas Dan Otto, John W. Barnwell, Arnab Pain, John Williams, Nicholas J. White, Nicholas P.J. Day, Georges Snounou, Peter J. Lockhart, Peter L. Chiodini, Mallika Imwong, Spencer D. Polley
• Other Authors: Health Protection Agency
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/29660
• Institution: Mahidol University

Background. Malaria in humans is caused by apicomplexan parasites belonging to 5 species of the genus Plasmodium. Infections with Plasmodium ovale are widely distributed but rarely investigated, and the resulting burden of disease is not known. Dimorphism in defined genes has led to P ovale parasite...