Several questions on public health impact have arisen from the discovery of a large focus of
the simian malaria parasite, Plasmodium knowlesi, in the human population. P. knowlesi …

The global malaria burden sometimes obscures that the genus Plasmodium comprises
diverse clades with lineages that independently gave origin to the extant human parasites …

This work examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world,
describing a process called" spillover" where illness originates in wild animals before being …

Phylogenetic analysis of genomic data allows insights into the evolutionary history of
pathogens, especially the events leading to host switching and diversification, as well as …

Plasmodium vivax is the leading cause of human malaria in Asia and Latin America but is
absent from most of central Africa due to the near fixation of a mutation that inhibits the …

We sequenced and annotated the genomes of four P. vivax strains collected from disparate
geographic locations, tripling the number of genome sequences available for this …

Haemosporidians are a diverse group of vector-borne parasitic protozoa that includes the
agents of human malaria; however, most of the described species are found in birds and …

P. cynomolgi, a malaria-causing parasite of Asian Old World monkeys, is the sister taxon of
P. vivax, the most prevalent malaria-causing species in humans outside of Africa. Because …

Some human malaria Plasmodium falciparum parasites, but not others, also cause disease
in Aotus monkeys. To identify the basis for this variation, we crossed two clones that differ in …

Malaria has been one of the most important diseases of humans throughout history and
continues to be a major public health concern. The 5 species of Plasmodium that cause the …