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Liu, Weimin, Sesh A. Sundararaman, Dorothy E. Loy, et al. "Multigenomic Delineation of Plasmodium Species of the Laverania Subgenus Infecting Wild-Living Chimpanzees and Gorillas." Genome Biology and Evolution 8, no. 6 (2016): 1929–39. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13534416.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Plasmodium falciparum, the major cause of malaria morbidity and mortality worldwide, is only distantly related to other human malaria parasites and has thus been placed in a separate subgenus, termed Laverania Parasites morphologically similar to P. falciparum have been identified in African apes, but only one other Laverania species, Plasmodium reichenowi from chimpanzees, has been formally described. Although recent studies have pointed to the existence of additional Laverania species, their precise number and host associations remain uncert

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Liu, Weimin, Sesh A. Sundararaman, Dorothy E. Loy, et al. "Multigenomic Delineation of Plasmodium Species of the Laverania Subgenus Infecting Wild-Living Chimpanzees and Gorillas." Genome Biology and Evolution 8, no. 6 (2016): 1929–39. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13534416.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Plasmodium falciparum, the major cause of malaria morbidity and mortality worldwide, is only distantly related to other human malaria parasites and has thus been placed in a separate subgenus, termed Laverania Parasites morphologically similar to P. falciparum have been identified in African apes, but only one other Laverania species, Plasmodium reichenowi from chimpanzees, has been formally described. Although recent studies have pointed to the existence of additional Laverania species, their precise number and host associations remain uncert

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Sharp, Paul M., Lindsey J. Plenderleith, and Beatrice H. Hahn. "Ape Origins of Human Malaria." Annual Review of Microbiology 74, no. 1 (2020): 39–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-micro-020518-115628.

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African apes harbor at least twelve Plasmodium species, some of which have been a source of human infection. It is now well established that Plasmodium falciparum emerged following the transmission of a gorilla parasite, perhaps within the last 10,000 years, while Plasmodium vivax emerged earlier from a parasite lineage that infected humans and apes in Africa before the Duffy-negative mutation eliminated the parasite from humans there. Compared to their ape relatives, both human parasites have greatly reduced genetic diversity and an excess of nonsynonymous mutations, consistent with severe ge

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Loy, Dorothy E., Lindsey J. Plenderleith, Sesh A. Sundararaman, et al. "Evolutionary history of human Plasmodium vivax revealed by genome-wide analyses of related ape parasites." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 36 (2018): E8450—E8459. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810053115.

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Wild-living African apes are endemically infected with parasites that are closely related to human Plasmodium vivax, a leading cause of malaria outside Africa. This finding suggests that the origin of P. vivax was in Africa, even though the parasite is now rare in humans there. To elucidate the emergence of human P. vivax and its relationship to the ape parasites, we analyzed genome sequence data of P. vivax strains infecting six chimpanzees and one gorilla from Cameroon, Gabon, and Côte d’Ivoire. We found that ape and human parasites share nearly identical core genomes, differing by only 2% o

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Makanga, Boris, Patrick Yangari, Nil Rahola, et al. "Ape malaria transmission and potential for ape-to-human transfers in Africa." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 19 (2016): 5329–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1603008113.

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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, where wild apes live, at different heights under the canopy. More than 2,400 anopheline mosquitoes belo

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Antinori, Spinello, Laura Galimberti, Laura Milazzo, and Mario Corbellino. "BIOLOGY OF HUMAN MALARIA PLASMODIA INCLUDING PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI." Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases 4, no. 1 (2012): e2012013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2012.013.

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Malaria is a vector-borne infection caused by unicellular parasite of the genus Plasmodium. Plasmodia are obligate intracellular parasites that in humans after a clinically silent replication phase in the liver are able to infect and replicate within the erythrocytes. Four species (P.falciparum, P.malariae, P.ovale and P.vivax) are traditionally recognized as responsible of natural infection in human beings but the recent upsurge of P.knowlesi malaria in South-East Asia has led clinicians to consider it as the fifth human malaria parasite. Recent studies in wild-living apes in Africa have reve

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Lilly, Alecia A., Patrick T. Mehlman, and Diane Doran. "Intestinal Parasites in Gorillas, Chimpanzees, and Humans at Mondika Research Site, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic." International Journal of Primatology 23, no. 3 (2002): 555–73. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13534856.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) We report prevalences and eggs/protozoa per g (EPG; PPG) of helminths and protozoa in gorillas, chimpanzees, agile mangabeys, indigenous Ba'Aka and Bantu, and western researchers at a remote field site in the Central African Republic. We examined fecal samples for eggs, larvae, proglottids, cysts, amoeba, trophozoites, and flagellates. For helminths, strongylates were most prevalent, infecting 82–94% of nonhuman primates (NH) and 30–93% of human (H) groups, followed by ascaroids (14–88% NH; 0–15% H), and threadworms (0–22% NH; 0–29% H). For pr

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Lilly, Alecia A., Patrick T. Mehlman, and Diane Doran. "Intestinal Parasites in Gorillas, Chimpanzees, and Humans at Mondika Research Site, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic." International Journal of Primatology 23, no. 3 (2002): 555–73. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13534856.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) We report prevalences and eggs/protozoa per g (EPG; PPG) of helminths and protozoa in gorillas, chimpanzees, agile mangabeys, indigenous Ba'Aka and Bantu, and western researchers at a remote field site in the Central African Republic. We examined fecal samples for eggs, larvae, proglottids, cysts, amoeba, trophozoites, and flagellates. For helminths, strongylates were most prevalent, infecting 82–94% of nonhuman primates (NH) and 30–93% of human (H) groups, followed by ascaroids (14–88% NH; 0–15% H), and threadworms (0–22% NH; 0–29% H). For pr

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Prugnolle, Franck, Patrick Durand, Benjamin Ollomo, et al. "A Fresh Look at the Origin of Plasmodium falciparum, the Most Malignant Malaria Agent." PLOS Pathogens 7, no. 2 (2011): e1001283. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13538108.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) From which host did the most malignant human malaria come: birds, primates, or rodents? When did the transfer occur? Over the last half century, these have been some of the questions up for debate about the origin of Plasmodium falciparum, the most common and deadliest human malaria parasite, which is responsible for at least one million deaths every year. Recent findings bring elements in favor of a transfer from great apes, but are these evidences really solid? What are the grey areas that remain to be clarified? Here, we examine in depth th

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Prugnolle, Franck, Patrick Durand, Benjamin Ollomo, et al. "A Fresh Look at the Origin of Plasmodium falciparum, the Most Malignant Malaria Agent." PLOS Pathogens 7, no. 2 (2011): e1001283. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13538108.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) From which host did the most malignant human malaria come: birds, primates, or rodents? When did the transfer occur? Over the last half century, these have been some of the questions up for debate about the origin of Plasmodium falciparum, the most common and deadliest human malaria parasite, which is responsible for at least one million deaths every year. Recent findings bring elements in favor of a transfer from great apes, but are these evidences really solid? What are the grey areas that remain to be clarified? Here, we examine in depth th

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Plenderleith, Lindsey J., Weimin Liu, Oscar A. MacLean, et al. "Adaptive Evolution of RH5 in Ape Plasmodium species of the Laverania Subgenus." mBio 9, no. 1 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mbio.02237-17.

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ABSTRACT Plasmodium falciparum, the major cause of malaria morbidity and mortality in humans, has been shown to have emerged after cross-species transmission of one of six host-specific parasites (subgenus Laverania) infecting wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla). Binding of the parasite-encoded ligand RH5 to the host protein basigin is essential for erythrocyte invasion and has been implicated in host specificity. A recent study claimed to have found two amino acid changes in RH5 that “drove the host shift leading to the emergence of P. falciparum as a hum

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Brazier, Andrew J., Marion Avril, Maria Bernabeu, Maxwell Benjamin, and Joseph D. Smith. "Pathogenicity Determinants of the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum Have Ancient Origins." mSphere 2, no. 1 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00348-16.

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ABSTRACT Cytoadhesion of P. falciparum-infected erythrocytes in the microcirculation is a major virulence determinant. P. falciparum is descended from a subgenus of parasites that also infect chimpanzees and gorillas and exhibits strict host species specificity. Despite their high genetic similarity to P. falciparum, it is unknown whether ape parasites encode adhesion properties similar to those of P. falciparum or are as virulent in their natural hosts. Consequently, it has been unclear when virulent adhesion traits arose in P. falciparum and how long they have been present in the parasite po

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Plenderleith, Lindsey J., Weimin Liu, Yingying Li, et al. "Zoonotic origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium malariae from African apes." Nature Communications 13, no. 1 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29306-4.

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AbstractThe human parasite Plasmodium malariae has relatives infecting African apes (Plasmodium rodhaini) and New World monkeys (Plasmodium brasilianum), but its origins remain unknown. Using a novel approach to characterise P. malariae-related sequences in wild and captive African apes, we found that this group comprises three distinct lineages, one of which represents a previously unknown, highly divergent species infecting chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas across central Africa. A second ape-derived lineage is much more closely related to the third, human-infective lineage P. malariae, but

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Antinori, Spinello, Laura Galimberti, Laura Milazzo, and Mario Corbellino. "Biology of Human Malaria Plasmodia Including Plasmodium Knowlesi." Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases 4, no. 1 (2012). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13537253.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Malaria is a vector-borne infection caused by unicellular parasite of the genus Plasmodium. Plasmodia are obligate intracellular parasites that are able to infect and replicate within the erythrocytes after a clinically silent replication phase in the liver. Four species (P.falciparum, P.malariae, P.ovale and P.vivax) are traditionally recognized as responsible of natural infection in human beings but the recent upsurge of P.knowlesi malaria in South-East Asia has led clinicians to consider it as the fifth human malaria parasite. Recent studie

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Antinori, Spinello, Laura Galimberti, Laura Milazzo, and Mario Corbellino. "Biology of Human Malaria Plasmodia Including Plasmodium Knowlesi." Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases 4, no. 1 (2012). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13537253.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Malaria is a vector-borne infection caused by unicellular parasite of the genus Plasmodium. Plasmodia are obligate intracellular parasites that are able to infect and replicate within the erythrocytes after a clinically silent replication phase in the liver. Four species (P.falciparum, P.malariae, P.ovale and P.vivax) are traditionally recognized as responsible of natural infection in human beings but the recent upsurge of P.knowlesi malaria in South-East Asia has led clinicians to consider it as the fifth human malaria parasite. Recent studie

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Wroblewski, Emily E., Lisbeth A. Guethlein, Aaron G. Anderson, et al. "Malaria-driven adaptation of MHC class I in wild bonobo populations." Nature Communications 14, no. 1 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36623-9.

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AbstractThe malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum causes substantial human mortality, primarily in equatorial Africa. Enriched in affected African populations, the B*53 variant of HLA-B, a cell surface protein that presents peptide antigens to cytotoxic lymphocytes, confers protection against severe malaria. Gorilla, chimpanzee, and bonobo are humans’ closest living relatives. These African apes have HLA-B orthologs and are infected by parasites in the same subgenus (Laverania) as P. falciparum, but the consequences of these infections are unclear. Laverania parasites infect bonobos (Pan pani

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Xu, Kai, Yiran Wang, Chen-Hsiang Shen, et al. "Structural basis of LAIR1 targeting by polymorphic Plasmodium RIFINs." Nature Communications 12, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24291-6.

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AbstractRIFIN, a large family of Plasmodium variant surface antigens, plays a crucial role in malaria pathogenesis by mediating immune suppression through activation of inhibitory receptors such as LAIR1, and antibodies with LAIR1 inserts have been identified that bind infected erythrocytes through RIFIN. However, details of RIFIN-mediated LAIR1 recognition and receptor activation have been unclear. Here, we use negative-stain EM to define the architecture of LAIR1-inserted antibodies and determine crystal structures of RIFIN-variable 2 (V2) domain in complex with a LAIR1 domain. These structu

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