Exposure and infection to Plasmodium knowlesi in case study communities in Northern Sabah, Malaysia and Palawan, The Philippines

• Main Authors: Kimberly M. Fornace, Lou S. Herman, Tommy R. Abidin, Tock, Hing Chua, Sylvia Daim, Pauline J. Lorenzo, Lynn Grignard, Nor Afizah Nuin, Lau, Tiek Ying, Matthew J. Grigg, Timothy William, Fe Espino, Jonathan Cox, Kevin K. A. Tetteh, Chris J. Drakeley
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2018
• Subjects: RC109-216 Infectious and parasitic diseases
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33972/1/Exposure%20and%20infection%20to%20Plasmodium%20knowlesi%20in%20case%20study%20communities%20in%20Northern%20Sabah%2C%20Malaysia%20and%20Palawan%2C%20The%20Philippines.ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33972/2/Exposure%20and%20infection%20to%20Plasmodium%20knowlesi%20in%20case%20study%20communities%20in%20Northern%20Sabah%2C%20Malaysia%20and%20Palawan%2C%20The%20Philippines.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33972/; https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0006432; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pntd.0006432

Primarily impacting poor, rural populations, the zoonotic malaria Plasmodium knowlesi is now the main cause of human malaria within Malaysian Borneo. While data is increasingly available on symptomatic cases, little is known about community-level patterns of exposure and infection. Understanding the...