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Borneo longhouse and forest.
Human malaria parasite species were originally acquired from other primate hosts and subsequently became endemic, then spread throughout large parts of the world. A major zoonosis is now occurring with Plasmodium knowlesi from macaques in Southeast Asia, with a recent acceleration in numbers of reported cases particularly in Malaysia. Divis et al.
Image Credit: Balbir Singh
Citation: (2015) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 11(5) May 2015. PLoS Pathog 11(5): ev11.i05. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v11.i05
Published: May 29, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 Singh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Human malaria parasite species were originally acquired from other primate hosts and subsequently became endemic, then spread throughout large parts of the world. A major zoonosis is now occurring with Plasmodium knowlesi from macaques in Southeast Asia, with a recent acceleration in numbers of reported cases particularly in Malaysia. Divis et al.
Image Credit: Balbir Singh