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Simian malaria in the Brazilian Atlantic forest: first description of natural infection of capuchin monkeys (Cebinae subfamily) by Plasmodium simium

BACKGROUND: In Brazil, two species of Plasmodium have been described infecting non-human primates, Plasmodium brasilianum and Plasmodium simium. These species are morphologically, genetically and immunologically indistinguishable from the human Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium vivax parasites, res...

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Autores principales: de Alvarenga, Denise Anete Madureira, de Pina-Costa, Anielle, de Sousa, Taís Nóbrega, Pissinatti, Alcides, Zalis, Mariano G, Suaréz-Mutis, Martha C, Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Ricardo, Brasil, Patrícia, Daniel-Ribeiro, Cláudio Tadeu, de Brito, Cristiana Ferreira Alves
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4342080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889933
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-0606-6