Plasmodium simium: birth and evolution of a zoonotic malaria parasite species
Plasmodium simium, a parasite of platyrrhine monkeys, is known to cause human malaria outbreaks in Southeast Brazil. It has been hypothesized that, upon the introduction of Plasmodium vivax into the Americas at the time of the European colonization, the human parasite adapted to neotropical anopheli...
| Published in: | Parasitology |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0031182025100310/type/journal_article |