Anopheles sundaicus Mosquitoes as Vector for Plasmodium knowlesi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Using PCR and sequencing, we found Plasmodium knowlesi in the malaria vector Anopheles sundaicus mosquito collected from Katchal Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. We cannot rule out natural transmission of this parasite to humans through this mosquito species. An in-depth investigati...

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Autores principales: Vidhya, Pachalil Thiruvoth, Sunish, Ittoop Pulikkottil, Maile, Anwesh, Zahid, Ali Khan
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6433020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30882328
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2504.181668
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author Vidhya, Pachalil Thiruvoth
Sunish, Ittoop Pulikkottil
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Zahid, Ali Khan
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description Using PCR and sequencing, we found Plasmodium knowlesi in the malaria vector Anopheles sundaicus mosquito collected from Katchal Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. We cannot rule out natural transmission of this parasite to humans through this mosquito species. An in-depth investigation is needed to prevent disease outbreaks.
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spelling pubmed-64330202019-04-03 Anopheles sundaicus Mosquitoes as Vector for Plasmodium knowlesi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India Vidhya, Pachalil Thiruvoth Sunish, Ittoop Pulikkottil Maile, Anwesh Zahid, Ali Khan Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch Using PCR and sequencing, we found Plasmodium knowlesi in the malaria vector Anopheles sundaicus mosquito collected from Katchal Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. We cannot rule out natural transmission of this parasite to humans through this mosquito species. An in-depth investigation is needed to prevent disease outbreaks. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6433020/ /pubmed/30882328 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2504.181668 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Vidhya, Pachalil Thiruvoth
Sunish, Ittoop Pulikkottil
Maile, Anwesh
Zahid, Ali Khan
Anopheles sundaicus Mosquitoes as Vector for Plasmodium knowlesi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
title Anopheles sundaicus Mosquitoes as Vector for Plasmodium knowlesi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
title_full Anopheles sundaicus Mosquitoes as Vector for Plasmodium knowlesi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
title_fullStr Anopheles sundaicus Mosquitoes as Vector for Plasmodium knowlesi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
title_full_unstemmed Anopheles sundaicus Mosquitoes as Vector for Plasmodium knowlesi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
title_short Anopheles sundaicus Mosquitoes as Vector for Plasmodium knowlesi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
title_sort anopheles sundaicus mosquitoes as vector for plasmodium knowlesi, andaman and nicobar islands, india
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6433020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30882328
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2504.181668
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