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Plasmodium simium: Population Genomics Reveals the Origin of a Reverse Zoonosis.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2021
de Oliveira Thaís C, Rodrigues Priscila T, Early Angela M, Duarte Ana Maria R C, Buery Julyana C, Bueno Marina G, Catão-Dias José L, Cerutti Crispim, Rona Luísa D P, Neafsey Daniel E, Ferreira Marcelo U
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The population history of Plasmodium simium, which causes malaria in sylvatic Neotropical monkeys and humans along the Atlantic Coast of Brazil, remains disputed. Genetically diverse P vivax populations from various sources, including the lineages that founded the species P simium, are thought to have arrived in the Americas in separate migratory waves. METHODS: We use population genomic approaches to...
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