A large focus of naturally acquired Plasmodium knowlesi infections in human beingsBalbir Singh
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Lancet 363:1017-24. 2004
..We aimed to investigate whether such infections could be attributable to a variant form of P malariae or a newly emergent Plasmodium species...
- Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in humans is widely distributed and potentially life threatening
Janet Cox-Singh
Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
Clin Infect Dis 46:165-71. 2008
..The objectives of the present study were to determine the geographic distribution of P. knowlesi malaria in the human population in Malaysia and to investigate 4 suspected fatal cases...
- Bionomics of Anopheles latens in Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo in relation to the transmission of zoonotic simian malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi
Cheong H Tan
Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research Jalan Pahang, 50588 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Malar J 7:52. 2008
..A study was initiated to identify the vectors of malaria, to elucidate where transmission is taking place and to understand the bionomics of the vectors in Kapit...
- Cytoadherence and virulence - the case of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria
Farrah A Fatih
Centre for Infection and Immunity, St George s University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK
Malar J 11:33. 2012
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- Micro-geographic risk factors for malarial infection
Ward P Myers
Infectious Disease, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, USA
Malar J 8:27. 2009
..This study was designed to evaluate whether geographic parameters are associated with malarial infection in the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea (PNG), a remote area where malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality...
- Anti-inflammatory cytokines predominate in acute human Plasmodium knowlesi infections
Janet Cox-Singh
Division of Clinical Sciences, Infection and Immunity Research Centre, St George s University of London, London, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 6:e20541. 2011
..knowlesi as well as P. falciparum malaria. Crucially, P. knowlesi may be the disease and experimental primate model for severe malaria...
- Knowlesi malaria in Vietnam
Janet Cox-Singh
Centre for Infection, St George s University of London, UK
Malar J 8:269. 2009
..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...
- Severe malaria - a case of fatal Plasmodium knowlesi infection with post-mortem findings: a case report
Janet Cox-Singh
Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Centre for Infection, St George s University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK
Malar J 9:10. 2010
..Zoonotic malaria caused by Plasmodium knowlesi is an important, but newly recognized, human pathogen. For the first time, post-mortem findings from a fatal case of knowlesi malaria are reported here...
- Plasmodium knowlesi: reservoir hosts and tracking the emergence in humans and macaques
Kim Sung Lee
Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
PLoS Pathog 7:e1002015. 2011
..However, ongoing ecological changes resulting from deforestation, with an associated increase in the human population, could enable this pathogenic species of Plasmodium to switch to humans as the preferred host...
- Clinical and parasitological response to oral chloroquine and primaquine in uncomplicated human Plasmodium knowlesi infections
Cyrus Daneshvar
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaria Research Centre, 93150 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Malar J 9:238. 2010
..There are no studies assessing the detailed parasitological response to treatment of knowlesi malaria infections in man and whether antimalarial resistance occurs...
- Morphological features and differential counts of Plasmodium knowlesi parasites in naturally acquired human infections
Kim Sung Lee
Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Sarawak, Malaysia
Malar J 8:73. 2009
..knowlesi parasites in human infections were made, photographs were taken, and morphological features were compared with those of P. malariae and P. falciparum...
- Fragmented population structure of plasmodium falciparum in a region of declining endemicity
Thomas G Anthony
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Malaysia
J Infect Dis 191:1558-64. 2005
..The population genetic structure of Plasmodium falciparum differs between endemic regions, but the characteristics of a population recently fragmented by effective malaria control have been unknown...
- Plasmodium knowlesi from archival blood films: further evidence that human infections are widely distributed and not newly emergent in Malaysian Borneo
Kim Sung Lee
Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Unversiti Malaysia Sarawak, 93150 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, Malaysia
Int J Parasitol 39:1125-8. 2009
..knowlesi in Sarawak and its past occurrence. Taken together with data from previous studies, our findings suggest that P. knowlesi malaria is not a newly emergent disease in humans...
- Clinical and laboratory features of human Plasmodium knowlesi infection
Cyrus Daneshvar
Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
Clin Infect Dis 49:852-60. 2009
..Plasmodium knowlesi is increasingly recognized as a cause of human malaria in Southeast Asia but there are no detailed prospective clinical studies of naturally acquired infections...
- Knowlesi malaria: newly emergent and of public health importance?
Janet Cox-Singh
Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sarawak, 93150 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Trends Parasitol 24:406-10. 2008
..A complete emergence of P. knowlesi into the human population could be overwhelming and, although challenging, the prevention of this situation deserves serious consideration...
- Human Infections with Plasmodium knowlesi, the Philippines
Jennifer Luchavez
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine Parasitology, Fillinvest Compound, Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Muntinlupa 1781, The Philippines
Emerg Infect Dis 14:811-3. 2008
..This study suggests that this zoonotic infection is found across a relatively wide area in Palawan and documents autochthonous cases in the country...
- The impact of ecological conditions on the prevalence of malaria among orangutans
Nathan D Wolfe
Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2:97-103. 2002
..The results provide an example of how an ecological change can influence pathogen prevalence...
- Nested PCR analysis of Plasmodium parasites
Georges Snounou
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Methods Mol Med 72:189-203. 2002
