Human infections with Plasmodium knowlesi-zoonotic malaria

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 640-648

  Millar, S B ^a   Cox Singh, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Malaria; Pathogenesis; Plasmodium knowlesi; Transmission; Treatment; Vectors; Zoonotic

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EAST ASIAN; FATALITY; HUMAN; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MALAYSIA; NATURAL HOST; PARASITEMIA; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; DISEASE CARRIER; INSECT VECTOR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MACACA; MALARIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSES;

LEUCOSPHYRUS GROUP; MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA NEMESTRINA; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIMALARIALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MACACA; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84930822718     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.03.017     Document Type: Review

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