Natural Plasmodium inui Infections in Humans and Anopheles cracens Mosquito, Malaysia

Authors :: Nantha Kumar Jeyaprakasam
Jonathan Wee Kent Liew
Wei Kit Phang
Indra Vythilingam
Fatma Diyana Mohd Bukhari
Yee Ling Lau
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 27, Iss 10, Pp 2700-2703 (2021), Emerging Infectious Diseases
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021.
Abstract: We detected 2 natural, asymptomatic Plasmodium inui monoinfections in humans in Malaysia by using nested PCR on concentrated high-volume blood samples. We found a P. inui-positive Anopheles cracens mosquito in the same site as the human infections. Investigators should use ultrasensitive detection methods to identify simian malaria parasite transmission in humans.

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