Journal article
Investigations on anopheline mosquitoes close to the nest sites of chimpanzees subject to malaria infection in Ugandan highlands.
- Abstract:
-
BACKGROUND: Malaria parasites (Plasmodium sp.), including new species, have recently been discovered as low grade mixed infections in three wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) sampled randomly in Kibale National Park, Uganda. This suggested a high prevalence of malaria infection in this community. The clinical course of malaria in chimpanzees and the species of the vectors that transmit their parasites are not known. The fact that these apes display a specific behaviour in which...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Authors
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Malar J Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 116
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1475-2875
- ISSN:
-
1475-2875
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- UUID:
-
uuid:c497f9c2-0ee6-4bcd-a480-7658dada4840
- Local pid:
- pubs:325193
- Source identifiers:
-
325193
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Krief et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- © 2012 Krief et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
Metrics
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record