Plasmodium cynomolgi as Cause of Malaria in Tourist to Southeast Asia, 2018

We report human infection with simian Plasmodium cynomolgi in a tourist from Denmark who had visited forested areas in peninsular Malaysia and Thailand in August and September 2018. Because P. cynomolgi may go unnoticed by standard malaria diagnostics, this malaria species may be more common in huma...

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Autores principales: Hartmeyer, Gitte N., Stensvold, Christen R., Fabricius, Thilde, Marmolin, Ea S., Hoegh, Silje V., Nielsen, Henrik V., Kemp, Michael, Vestergaard, Lasse S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6759256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31538931
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2510.190448
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Sumario:We report human infection with simian Plasmodium cynomolgi in a tourist from Denmark who had visited forested areas in peninsular Malaysia and Thailand in August and September 2018. Because P. cynomolgi may go unnoticed by standard malaria diagnostics, this malaria species may be more common in humans than was previously thought.

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