Investigating the contribution of peri-domestic transmission to risk of zoonotic malaria infection in humans

• Main Authors: Manin, Benny O., Ferguson, Heather M., Indra Vythilingam, Fornace, Kim, William, Timothy, Torr, Steve J., Drakeley, Chris, Chua, Tock Hing
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2016
• Subjects: RB Pathology
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/27541/1/Investigating%20the%20contribution%20of%20peri-domestic%20transmission%20to%20risk%20of%20zoonotic%20malaria%20infection%20in%20humans%20ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/27541/2/Investigating%20the%20contribution%20of%20peri-domestic%20transmission%20to%20risk%20of%20zoonotic%20malaria%20infection%20in%20humans%20FULL%20TEXT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/27541/; https://storage.googleapis.com/plos-corpus-prod/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005064/1/pntd.0005064.pdf?X-Goog-Algorithm=GOOG4-RSA-SHA256&X-Goog-Credential=wombat-sa%40plos-prod.iam.gserviceaccount.com%2F20210630%2Fauto%2Fstorage%2Fgoog4_request&X-Goog-Date=20210630T072043Z&X-Goog-Expires=86400&X-Goog-SignedHeaders=host&X-Goog-Signature=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

Background: In recent years, the primate malaria Plasmodium knowlesi has emerged in human populations throughout South East Asia, with the largest hotspot being in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Control efforts are hindered by limited knowledge of where and when people get exposed to mosquito vectors. It...