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Modelling knowlesi malaria transmission in humans: vector preference and host competence

BACKGROUND: Plasmodium knowlesi, a malaria species that normally infects long-tailed macaques, was recently found to be prevalent in humans in Southeast Asia. While human host competency has been demonstrated experimentally, the extent to which the parasite can be transmitted from human back to mosq...

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Autores principales: Yakob, Laith, Bonsall, Michael B, Yan, Guiyun
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21080968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-329