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. 2018 Aug;24(8):1581-1583.
doi: 10.3201/eid2408.180010.

Plasmodium ovale wallikeri in Western Lowland Gorillas and Humans, Central African Republic

Mwanahamisi I Mapua, Hans-Peter Fuehrer, Klára J Petrželková, Angelique Todd, Harald Noedl, Moneeb A Qablan, David Modrý

Plasmodium ovale wallikeri in Western Lowland Gorillas and Humans, Central African Republic

Mwanahamisi I Mapua et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Aug.

Abstract

Human malaria parasites have rarely been reported from free-ranging great apes. Our study confirms the presence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium ovale wallikeri in western lowland gorillas and humans in Dzanga Sangha Protected Areas, Central African Republic, and discusses implications for malaria epidemiology.

Keywords: Central African Republic; Plasmodium ovale wallikeri; malaria; parasites; western lowland gorillas; zoonoses.

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Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees of cytochrome C oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) gene (656-bp) sequences from African great apes and human Plasmodium spp. reference strains. GenBank accession numbers are indicated. Scale bar represents nucleotide substitutions per site.
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