Plasmodium knowlesi is a malaria parasite that is found in nature in long-tailed and pig-
tailed macaques. Naturally acquired human infections were thought to be extremely rare …

Land use and land cover changes, such as deforestation, agricultural expansion and
urbanization, are one of the largest anthropogenic environmental changes globally. Recent …

Plasmodium knowlesi is a zoonotic malaria parasite that has gained increasing medical
interest over the past two decades. This zoonotic parasitic infection is prevalent in Southeast …

Malaria infection is still to be considered a major public health problem in those 106
countries where the risk of contracting the infection with one or more of the Plasmodium …

Brazil, a country of continental proportions, presents three profiles of malaria transmission.
The first and most important numerically, occurs inside the Amazon. The Amazon accounts …

Simian malaria from wild non-human primate populations is increasingly recognised as a
public health threat and is now the main cause of human malaria in Malaysia and some …

In 2004 a large focus of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria was reported in the human
population in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Plasmodium knowlesi, a parasite of the South …

Plasmodium knowlesi was initially identified in the 30s as a natural Plasmodium of Macaca
fascicularis monkey also capable of experimentally infecting humans. It gained a relative …

Background The simian malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi is emerging as a public
health problem in Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysian Borneo where it now accounts …

Background The simian malaria parasite, Plasmodium knowlesi, can cause severe and fatal
disease in humans yet it is rarely included in routine public health reporting systems for …