Co-infections with Plasmodium Knowlesi and Other Malaria Parasites, Myanmar

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2010 Aug 26

PMID 20735938

Citations 71

Authors

Ning Jiang

Qiaocheng Chang

Xiaodong Sun

Huijun Lu

Jigang Yin

Zaixing Zhang

Mats Wahlgren

Qijun Chen

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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.

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