Association between Landscape Factors and Spatial Patterns of Plasmodium knowlesi Infections in Sabah, Malaysia

Association between Landscape Factors and Spatial Patterns of Plasmodium knowlesi Infections in Sabah, Malaysia

The zoonotic malaria species Plasmodium knowlesi has become the main cause of human malaria in Malaysian Borneo. Deforestation and associated environmental and population changes have been hypothesized as main drivers of this apparent emergence. We gathered village-level data for P. knowlesi inciden...

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Main Authors: Kimberly M. Fornace, Tommy Rowel Abidin, Neal Alexander, Paddy Brock, Matthew J. Grigg, Amanda Murphy, Timothy William, Jayaram Menon, Chris J. Drakeley, Jonathan Cox
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2016-02-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Plasmodium knowlesi
deforestation
malaria
parasites
zoonoses
mosquitoes
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/2/15-0656_article

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/2/15-0656_article

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