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Ape Origins of Human Malaria.
Annual review of microbiology - 8 Sept 2020
Sharp Paul M, Plenderleith Lindsey J, Hahn Beatrice H
Abstract excerpt
African apes harbor at least twelve Plasmodium species, some of which have been a source of human infection. It is now well established that Plasmodium falciparum emerged following the transmission of a gorilla parasite, perhaps within the last 10,000 years, while Plasmodium vivax emerged earlier from a parasite lineage that infected humans and apes in Africa before the Duffy-negative mutation eliminated the...
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