Laboratory challenges of Plasmodium species identification in Aceh Province, Indonesia, a malaria elimination setting with newly discovered P. knowlesi.

• Main Authors: Farah N Coutrier (Author), Yusrifar K Tirta (Author), Chris Cotter (Author), Iska Zarlinda (Author), Iveth J González (Author), Alanna Schwartz (Author), Cut Maneh (Author), Jutta Marfurt (Author), Maxwell Murphy (Author), Herdiana Herdiana (Author), Nicholas M Anstey (Author), Bryan Greenhouse (Author), Michelle S Hsiang (Author), Rintis Noviyanti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The discovery of the life-threatening zoonotic infection Plasmodium knowlesi has added to the challenges of prompt and accurate malaria diagnosis and surveillance. In this study from Aceh Province, Indonesia, a malaria elimination setting where P. knowlesi endemicity was not previously known, we rep...