Natural Plasmodium inui Infections in Humans and Anopheles cracens Mosquito, Malaysia

Abstract

We detected 2 natural, asymptomatic Plasmodium inui monoinfections in humans in Malaysia by using nested PCR on concentrated high-volume blood samples. We found a P. inui–positive Anopheles cracens mosquito in the same site as the human infections. Investigators should use ultrasensitive detection methods to identify simian malaria parasite transmission in humans.

Keywords

• Plasmodium inui
• Anopheles
• vector
• malaria
• humans
• monkey