Plasmodium knowlesi in humans, macaques and mosquitoes in peninsular Malaysia

• Main Authors: Vythilingam, I., NoorAzian, Y.M., Huat, T.C., Jiram, A.I., Yusri, Y.M., Azahari, A.H., NorParina, I., NoorRain, A., LokmanHakim, S.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2008
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/4217/1/plasmodium_knowlesi_in_human_macaques_and_mosquitoes_in_peninsular_malaysia.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/4217/; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186%2F1756-3305-1-26?LI=true#page-1

Background Since a large focus of human infection with Plasmodium knowlesi , a simian malaria parasite naturally found in long-tailed and pig tailed macaques, was reported in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, it was pertinent to study the situation in peninsular Malaysia. A study was thus initiated to scre...