Co-infections with Plasmodium knowlesi and other malaria parasites, Myanmar.

ABSTRACT: To determine the frequency of co-infections with Plasmodium species in southern Myanmar, we investigated the prevalence of P. knowlesi. More than 20% of patients with malaria had P. knowlesi infection, which occurred predominantly as a co-infection with either P. falciparum or P. vivax.

SUBMITTER: Jiang N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3294981 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature