2011/03/03 by William E. Collins · 1 citation
Medicine · Computer Science · #Malaria Research and Control #Mosquito-borne diseases and control #Computational Drug Discovery Methods
paper · doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-121510-133540
openalex publication_date 2011/03/03 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Plasmodium knowlesi is a malaria parasite of monkeys of Southeast Asia that is transmitted by mosquitoes of the Anopheles leucosphyrus group. Humans are frequently infected with this parasite and misdiagnosed as being infected with Plasmodium malariae. The parasite was a major monkey animal model for developing antimalarial vaccines and investigations of the biology of parasite invasion. P. knowlesi is the first monkey malaria parasite genome to be sequenced and annotated.