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Open Access | Dispatch: Co-infections with Plasmodium knowlesi and Other Malaria Parasites, Myanmar

Author(s): 
Ning Jiang,1 Qiaocheng Chang,1 Xiaodong Sun,1 Huijun Lu, Jigang Yin, Zaixing Zhang, Mats Wahlgren, and Qijun Chen
Reference: 
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 16, Number 9–September 2010
Contact email: 
qijun.chen@ki.se

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.