The genome of the zoonotic malaria parasite Plasmodium simium reveals adaptations to host switching

BACKGROUND: Plasmodium simium, a malaria parasite of non-human primates (NHP), was recently shown to cause zoonotic infections in humans in Brazil. We sequenced the P. simium genome to investigate its evolutionary history and to identify any genetic adaptions that may underlie the ability of this pa...

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Autores principales: Mourier, Tobias, de Alvarenga, Denise Anete Madureira, Kaushik, Abhinav, de Pina-Costa, Anielle, Douvropoulou, Olga, Guan, Qingtian, Guzmán-Vega, Francisco J., Forrester, Sarah, de Abreu, Filipe Vieira Santos, Júnior, Cesare Bianco, de Souza Junior, Julio Cesar, Moreira, Silvia Bahadian, Hirano, Zelinda Maria Braga, Pissinatti, Alcides, Ferreira-da-Cruz, Maria de Fátima, de Oliveira, Ricardo Lourenço, Arold, Stefan T., Jeffares, Daniel C., Brasil, Patrícia, de Brito, Cristiana Ferreira Alves, Culleton, Richard, Daniel-Ribeiro, Cláudio Tadeu, Pain, Arnab
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8485552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34592986
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01139-5

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