High incidence of asymptomatic cases during an outbreak of Plasmodium malariae in a remote village of Malaysian Borneo

• Main Authors: Nurul Athirah Naserrudin, Emira Izzati Abdul Aziz, Erdie Aljet, George Mangunji, Bumpei Tojo, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree, Culleton, Richard, Kamruddin Ahmed
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2021
• Subjects: RC109-216 Infectious and parasitic diseases
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34451/1/FULL%20TEXT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34451/2/ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34451/; https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0009450; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009450

An outbreak of Plasmodium malariae occurred in Sonsogon Paliu village in the remote area of Ulu Bengkoka sub-district of Kota Marudu, Northern Sabah, Malaysian Borneo from July through August 2019. This was the first outbreak of malaria in this village since 2014. On 11th July 2019 the Kota Kinabalu...