Knowlesi malaria in Vietnam
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26/11/2009Author
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Abstract
The simian malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi is transmitted in the forests of Southeast Asia. Symptomatic zoonotic knowlesi malaria in humans is widespread in the region and is associated with a history of spending time in the jungle. However, there are many settings where knowlesi transmission to humans would be expected but is not found. A recent report on the Ra-glai population of southern central Vietnam is taken as an example to help explain why this may be so.
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Cox Singh , J 2009 , ' Knowlesi malaria in Vietnam ' , Malaria Journal , vol. 8 , 269 . https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-269
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Malaria Journal
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Peer reviewed
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1475-2875Type
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© 2009 Cox-Singh; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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