Wednesday, 19 December 2018

PRO/AH/EDR> Malaria - India (05): (KL) P. falciparum, macaque

Malaria -- India
Dixit J, Zachariah A, Sajesh PK, et al. Reinvestigating the status of malaria parasite (_Plasmodium_ sp.) in Indian non-human primates. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018; 12(12): e0006801; .
Recent molecular phylogeny of plasmodium infecting primates suggests that the principal malaria causing pathogens in humans (_P. falciparum_, _P. vivax_, _P. malariae_, and _P. ovale_) are related to plasmodium infecting non-human primates and have multiple, independent evolutionary origins. _P.

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