Knowlesi malaria in Vietnam

The simian malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi is transmitted in the forests of Southeast Asia. Symptomatic zoonotic knowlesi malaria in humans is widespread in the region and is associated with a history of spending time in the jungle. However, there are many settings where knowlesi transmission t...

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Autor principal: Cox-Singh, Janet
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2787523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19941646
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-269
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description The simian malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi is transmitted in the forests of Southeast Asia. Symptomatic zoonotic knowlesi malaria in humans is widespread in the region and is associated with a history of spending time in the jungle. However, there are many settings where knowlesi transmission to humans would be expected but is not found. A recent report on the Ra-glai population of southern central Vietnam is taken as an example to help explain why this may be so.
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spelling pubmed-27875232009-12-03 Knowlesi malaria in Vietnam Cox-Singh, Janet Malar J Commentary The simian malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi is transmitted in the forests of Southeast Asia. Symptomatic zoonotic knowlesi malaria in humans is widespread in the region and is associated with a history of spending time in the jungle. However, there are many settings where knowlesi transmission to humans would be expected but is not found. A recent report on the Ra-glai population of southern central Vietnam is taken as an example to help explain why this may be so. BioMed Central 2009-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2787523/ /pubmed/19941646 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-269 Text en Copyright ©2009 Cox-Singh; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2787523/
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