Epidemiological characteristics of Plasmodium malariae malaria in China: a malaria that should not be neglected post elimination

Abstract Background Plasmodium malariae was always neglected compared with P. falciparum and P. vivax. In the present study, we aimed to describe the epidemiology of reported cases infected with P. malariae in the past decade to raise awareness of the potential threat of this malaria parasite in Chi...

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Main Authors: Li Zhang, Bo-Yu Yi, Shui-Sen Zhou, Zhi-Gui Xia, Jian-Hai Yin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-11-01
Series:Infectious Diseases of Poverty
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-023-01156-2