| investigations on anopheline mosquitoes close to the nest sites of chimpanzees subject to malaria infection in ugandan highlands. | 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 they consume p ... | 2012 | 22510395 |
| anopheles moucheti and anopheles vinckei are candidate vectors of ape plasmodium parasites, including plasmodium praefalciparum in gabon. | during the last four years, knowledge about the diversity of plasmodium species in african great apes has considerably increased. several new species were described in chimpanzees and gorillas, and some species that were previously considered as strictly of human interest were found to be infecting african apes. the description in gorillas of p. praefalciparum, the closest relative of p. falciparum which is the main malignant agent of human malaria, definitively changed the way we understand the ... | 2013 | 23437363 |
| ape malaria transmission and potential for ape-to-human transfers in africa. | recent studies have highlighted the large diversity of malaria parasites infecting african great apes (subgenus laverania) and their strong host specificity. although the existence of genetic incompatibilities preventing the cross-species transfer may explain host specificity, the existence of vectors with a high preference for a determined host represents another possibility. to test this hypothesis, we undertook a 15-mo-long longitudinal entomological survey in two forest regions of gabon, whe ... | 2016 | 27071123 |