Recent Incidence of Human Malaria Caused by Plasmodium knowlesi in the Villages in Kudat Peninsula, Sabah, Malaysia: Mapping of The Infection Risk Using Remote Sensing Data

• Main Authors: Shigeharu Sato, Bumpei Tojo, Tomonori Hoshi, Lis Izni Fanirah Minsong, Omar Kwang Kugan, Nelbon Giloi, Kamruddin Ahmed, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree, Kazuhiko Moji, Kiyoshi Kita
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); RA Public aspects of medicine
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/24676/7/Recent%20Incidence%20of%20Human%20Malaria%20Caused%20by%20Plasmodium%20knowlesi%20in%20the%20Villages%20in%20Kudat%20Peninsula%20Sabah%20Malaysia%20Mapping%20of%20The%20Infection%20Risk%20Using%20Remote%20Sensing%20Data.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/24676/

Plasmodium knowlesi (Pk) is a malaria parasite that naturally infects macaque monkeys in Southeast Asia. Pk malaria, the zoonosis transmitted from the infected monkeys to the humans by Anopheles mosquito vectors, is now a serious health problem in Malaysian Borneo. To createa strategic plan to contr...