Plasmodium knowlesi Genome Sequences from Clinical Isolates Reveal Extensive Genomic Dimorphism

• Main Authors: Miguel M., Pinheiro, Md Atique, Ahmed, Scott B., Millar, Theo, Sanderson, Thomas, D. Otto, Woon, Chan Lu, Sanjeev, Krishna, Julian C., Rayner, Janet, Cox-Singh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Plos One Publishing 2015
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10714/1/Plasmodium.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10714/; http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0121303

Plasmodium knowlesi is a newly described zoonosis that causes malaria in the human population that can be severe and fatal. The study of P. knowlesi parasites from human clinical isolates is relatively new and, in order to obtain maximum information from patient sample collections, we explored th...