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A plethora of Plasmodium species in wild apes: a source of human infection?
Recent studies of captive and wild-living apes in Africa have uncovered evidence of numerous new Plasmodium species, one of which was identified as the immediate precursor of human Plasmodium falciparum. These findings raise the question whether wild apes could be a recurrent source of Plasmodium in...
Autores principales: | Rayner, Julian C., Liu, Weimin, Peeters, Martine, Sharp, Paul M., Hahn, Beatrice H. |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier Science
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3087880/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21354860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2011.01.006 |
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