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Co-infections with Plasmodium knowlesi and Other Malaria Parasites, Myanmar

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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 16, Issue 9, Pages 1476-1478

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CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL
DOI: 10.3201/eid1609.100339

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  1. National Basic Research Program of China [2007CB513100]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [30625029]
  3. National Science and Technology project [2008zc10004-011]
  4. Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control
  5. Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

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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.

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