Wild Chimpanzees Infected with 5 Plasmodium Species

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1956-1959

  Kaiser, Marco ^a,b   Löwa, Anna ^a   Ulrich, Markus ^b   Ellerbrok, Heinz ^a   Goffe, Adeelia S ^a,c   Blasse, Anja ^a   Zommers, Zinta ^c   Couacy Hymann, Emmanuel ^d   Babweteera, Fred ^e   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^e,f   Metzger, Sonja ^g   Geidel, Sebastian ^g   Boesch, Christophe ^g   Gillespie, Thomas R ^h   Leendertz, Fabian H ^a,g  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b GENEXPRESS GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d LANADA/LCPA ^*  (South Africa)

^e BUDONGO CONSERVATION FIELD STATION   (Uganda)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^h EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM GABONI; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM OVALE MALARIA; PLASMODIUM REICHENOWI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; APE DISEASES; BASE SEQUENCE; COTE D'IVOIRE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETIC VARIATION; MALARIA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 78649625125     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1612.100424     Document Type: Article

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