Natural infection of Plasmodium brasilianum in humans: Man and monkey share quartan malaria parasites in the Venezuelan Amazon

EBioMedicine

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1186-1192

  Lalremruata, Albert ^a   Magris, Magda ^b   Vivas Martínez, Sarai ^b,d   Koehler, Maike ^a   Esen, Meral ^a   Kempaiah, Prakasha ^c   Jeyaraj, Sankarganesh ^a   Perkins, Douglas Jay ^c   Mordmüller, Benjamin ^a   Metzger, Wolfram G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SACAICET   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Anthroponosis; Anthropozoonosis; Circumsporozoite protein; CSP; New World monkey; PCR; Plasmodium brasilianum; Plasmodium malariae; Polymerase change reaction; Quartan malaria; Sequencing; Small subunit ribosomal RNA; Venezuela; Yanomami; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN, PROTOZOAN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ALOUATTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BRASILIANUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VENEZUELAN; ANIMAL; HAPLORHINI; METABOLISM; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; VENEZUELA;

ANIMALS; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MALARIA; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; VENEZUELA;

EID: 84953724050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23523964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.07.033     Document Type: Article

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