Multigenomic Delineation of<i>Plasmodium</i>Species of the<i>Laverania</i>Subgenus Infecting Wild-Living Chimpanzees and Gorillas

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Plasmodium falciparum, the major cause of malaria morbidity and mortality worldwide, is only distantly related to other human malaria parasites and has thus been placed in a separate subgenus, termed Laverania Parasites morphologically similar to P. falciparum have been identified in African apes, but only one other Laverania species, Plasmodium reichenowi from chimpanzees, has been formally described. Although...

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