| first case of plasmodium knowlesi infection in a japanese traveller returning from malaysia. | this is the first case of plasmodium knowlesi infection in a japanese traveller returning from malaysia. in september 2012, a previously healthy 35-year-old japanese man presented to national center for global health and medicine in tokyo with a two-day history of daily fever, mild headaches and mild arthralgia. malaria parasites were found in the giemsa-stained thin blood smear, which showed band forms similar to plasmodium malariae. although a nested pcr showed the amplification of the primer ... | 2013 | 23587117 |