Natural infection of Plasmodium brasilianum in humans: Man and monkey share quartan malaria parasites in the Venezuelan Amazon

Natural infection of Plasmodium brasilianum in humans: Man and monkey share quartan malaria parasites in the Venezuelan Amazon

Background: The quartan malaria parasite Plasmodium malariae is the widest spread and best adapted human malaria parasite. The simian Plasmodium brasilianum causes quartan fever in New World monkeys and resembles P. malariae morphologically. Since the genetics of the two parasites are nearly identic...

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Main Authors: Albert Lalremruata, Magda Magris, Sarai Vivas-Martínez, Maike Koehler, Meral Esen, Prakasha Kempaiah, Sankarganesh Jeyaraj, Douglas Jay Perkins, Benjamin Mordmüller, Wolfram G. Metzger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-09-01
Series:EBioMedicine
Subjects:
Quartan malaria
Yanomami
Venezuela
Plasmodium malariae
Plasmodium brasilianum
New World monkey
Anthropozoonosis
Anthroponosis
Zoonosis
Circumsporozoite protein
CSP
Small subunit ribosomal RNA
18S rRNA
Polymerase change reaction
Sequencing
PCR
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