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Prevention of Pediatric Malaria in Japan

Submitted by Kabogo on September 7, 2011 - 07:48
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Author(s): 
Nozomi Takeshita and Shuzo Kanagawa
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Journal of Travel Medicine, Volume 18, Issue 5, page 363, September/October 2011
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Blood Meal Identification and Prevalence of Avian Malaria Parasite in Mosquitoes Collected at Kushiro Wetland, A Subarctic Zone of Japan

Submitted by patrick sampao on July 18, 2011 - 14:37
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Hiroko Ejiri, Yukita Sato, Kyeong Soon Kim,Yoshio Tsuda, Koichi Murata, Keisuke Saito, Yukiko Watanabe, Yoshiharu Shimura and Masayoshi Yukawa
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Journal of Medical Entomology 48(4):904-908. 2011
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These results indicated that infected birds with avian Plasmodium inhabited and direct contacts occurred between the infected birds and mosquitoes in Kushiro Wetland, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Entomological Study on Transmission of Avian Malaria Parasites in a Zoological Garden in Japan: Bloodmeal Identification and Detection of Avian Malaria Parasite DNA from Blood-Fed Mosquitoes

Submitted by patrick sampao on May 10, 2011 - 14:16
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Hiroko Ejiri, Yukita Sato, Kyeong-Soon Kim, Tatsuko Hara, Yoshio Tsuda, Takayuki Imura, Koichi Murata, and Masayoshi Yukawa
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Journal of Medical Entomology 48(3):600-607. 2011
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We investigated the prevalence and transmission of avian malaria parasite and determined the bloodmeal hosts of mosquitoes collected in a zoological garden in Tokyo, Japan, by using the polymerase chain reaction.

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Foreword: Malaria research—Diversity and control: A Sweden–Japan joint seminar

Submitted by patrick sampao on March 31, 2010 - 10:11
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Author(s): 
Akira Kaneko, Mats Wahlgren
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Acta Tropica, Volume 114, Issue 3, June 2010, Pages 129-130
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Identification of Plasmodium malariae, a Human Malaria Parasite, in Imported Chimpanzees

Submitted by Bart Knols on October 25, 2009 - 15:51
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Hayakawa T, Arisue N, Udono T, Hirai H, Sattabongkot J, et al.
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PLoS ONE 4(10): e7412. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007412
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hayakawa@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp

It is widely believed that human malaria parasites infect only man as a natural host. However, earlier morphological observations suggest that great apes are likely to be natural reservoirs as well. To identify malaria parasites in great apes, we screened 60 chimpanzees imported into Japan.

 

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