Seasonal and inter-annual variation of malaria parasite detection in wild chimpanzees

Seasonal and inter-annual variation of malaria parasite detection in wild chimpanzees

Abstract Background Cross-sectional surveys of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) communities across sub-Saharan Africa show large geographical variation in malaria parasite (Plasmodium spp.) prevalence. The drivers leading to this apparent spatial heterogeneity may also be temporally dynamic but data on...

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Main Authors: Doris F. Wu, Therese Löhrich, Andreas Sachse, Roger Mundry, Roman M. Wittig, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Tobias Deschner, Fabian H. Leendertz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-01-01
Series:Malaria Journal
Subjects:
Plasmodium spp.
Malaria
Pan troglodytes verus
Temporal variation
Chimpanzees
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-018-2187-7

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