Co-infections with Plasmodium knowlesi and other malaria parasites, Myanmar

Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Sep;16(9):1476-8. doi: 10.3201/eid1609.100339.

Abstract

To determine the frequency of co-infections with Plasmodium species in southern Myanmar, we investigated the prevalence of P. knowlesi. More than 20% of patients with malaria had P. knowlesi infection, which occurred predominantly as a co-infection with either P. falciparum or P. vivax.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • DNA, Protozoan / genetics
  • Humans
  • Malaria / epidemiology*
  • Malaria / parasitology*
  • Malaria, Falciparum / epidemiology
  • Malaria, Falciparum / parasitology
  • Malaria, Vivax / epidemiology
  • Malaria, Vivax / parasitology
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Myanmar / epidemiology
  • Phylogeny
  • Plasmodium knowlesi* / classification
  • Plasmodium knowlesi* / genetics
  • Plasmodium knowlesi* / isolation & purification
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Prevalence
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 18S / genetics

Substances

  • DNA, Protozoan
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 18S

Associated data

  • GENBANK/GU816242
  • GENBANK/GU816243
  • GENBANK/GU816244
  • GENBANK/GU816245
  • GENBANK/GU816246
  • GENBANK/GU816247
  • GENBANK/GU816248
  • GENBANK/GU816249
  • GENBANK/GU816250