Environmental risk factors and exposure to the zoonotic malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi across northern Sabah, Malaysia: a population-based cross-sectional survey

• Main Authors: Fornace, Kimberly M, Brock, Paddy M, Tommy R Abidin, Grignard, Lynn, Herman, Lou S, Chua, Tock Hing, Sylvia Daim, William, Timothy, Patterson, Catriona L E B, Hall, Tom, Grigg, Matthew J, Anstey, Nicholas M, Tetteh, Kevin K A, Cox, Jonathan, Drakeley, Chris J
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2019
• Subjects: RC109-216 Infectious and parasitic diseases
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30573/1/Environmental%20risk%20factors%20and%20exposure%20to%20the%20zoonotic%20malaria%20parasite%20Plasmodium%20knowlesi%20across%20northern%20Sabah%20ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30573/2/Environmental%20risk%20factors%20and%20exposure%20to%20the%20zoonotic%20malaria%20parasite%C2%A0Plasmodium%20knowlesi%C2%A0across%20northern%20Sabah%2C%20Malaysia%20a%20population-based%20cross-sectional%20survey%20FULL%20TEXT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30573/; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519619300452; https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(19)30045-2

Background: Land use changes disrupt ecosystems, altering the transmission of vector-borne diseases. These changes have been associated with increasing incidence of zoonotic malaria caused by Plasmodium knowlesi; however, the population-level distributions of infection and exposure remain unknown. W...