Humans frequently exposed to a range of non-human primate malaria parasite species through the bites of Anopheles dirus mosquitoes in South-central Vietnam

Humans frequently exposed to a range of non-human primate malaria parasite species through the bites of Anopheles dirus mosquitoes in South-central Vietnam

Abstract Background Recent studies have described natural human infections of the non-human primate parasites Plasmodium knowlesi and Plasmodium cynomolgi. In Southeast Asia, mosquitoes of the Anopheles leucosphyrus group bite both humans and monkeys in the forest and thus offer a possible route for...

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Main Authors: Yoshimasa Maeno, Nguyen Tuyen Quang, Richard Culleton, Satoru Kawai, Gaku Masuda, Shusuke Nakazawa, Ron P. Marchand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2015-07-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
Subjects:
Sporozoites
Anopheles dirus
Plasmodium vivax
Plasmodium falciparum
Plasmodium knowlesi
Plasmodium cynomolgi
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0995-y

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0995-y

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