Wild Chimpanzees Infected with 5 Plasmodium Species

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Kaiser, Marco ; Löwa, Anna ; Ulrich, Markus ; Ellerbrok, Heinz ; Goffe, Adeelia S. ; Blasse, Anja ; Zommers, Zinta ; Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel ; Babweteera, Fred ; Zuberbühler, Klaus ; Metzger, Sonja ; Geidel, Sebastian ; Boesch, Christophe ; Gillespie, Thomas R. ; Leendertz, Fabian H.
• Description:
  Data are missing on the diversity of Plasmodium spp. infecting apes that live in their natural habitat, with limited possibility of human-mosquito-ape exchange. We surveyed Plasmodium spp. diversity in wild chimpanzees living in an undisturbed tropical rainforest habitat and found 5 species: P. malariae, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. reichenowi, and P. gaboni.
• Subjects:
  • Dispatch
  • Wild chimpanzees
  • Plasmodium
  • zoonoses
  • human malaria
  • parasites
  • natural diversity
  • tropical rain forest
  • dispatch
  • Animals
  More +
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 16(12):1956-1959.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  16
• Issue:
  12
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/24256/cdc_24256_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 349.40 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d4c8c3005454d940df131c830fc9e1cbbc334fc32edddd5cf3eacda2c1fbdbd4