Plasmodium brasilianum is a parasite that infects many species of platyrrhine monkeys in South and Central America.[1]
| Plasmodium brasilianum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
| Class: | Aconoidasida |
| Order: | Haemospororida |
| Family: | Plasmodiidae |
| Genus: | Plasmodium |
| Species: | P. brasilianum
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| Binomial name | |
| Plasmodium brasilianum (Gonder and Von Berenberg-Gossler, 1908)
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Description
editSequence analysis of circumsporozoite protein, merozoite surface protein-1, and small subunit ribosomal RNA of P. malariae and P. brasilianum showed that the two parasites were very closely related.[1] It is considered plausible that P. brasilianum in platyrrhines is a result of the cross-species transfer of P. malariae brought to the New World by settlers in the post-Columbus era.[1] As P. malariae and P. brasilianum have now been demonstrated to be genetically identical based on 18S rRNA sequences, it has been proposed that P. brasilianum be subsumed under the name P. malariae.
Distribution
editPlasmodium brasilianum naturally infects species of primates from all New World monkey families from a large geographic area in Central and South America.[2] The parasite has been found in Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and French Guiana.[3][4]
Hosts
editNatural infection of P. brasilianum has been found in tamarins and marmosets of the genera Callithrix, Leontopithecus and Mico in the Atlantic forest.[2] Also Anopheles freeborni mosquitoes infected by feeding on a platyrrhine spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi geoffroyi) from Panama carrying P. brasilianum, have been shown to transmit the parasite through biting to five human volunteers.[1] In addition to humans, P. brasilianum has been transmissible experimentally to marmosets.[5]
See also
editReferences
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- ^ a b Alvarenga, Denise A. M.; Pina-Costa, Anielle; BiancoJr, Cesare; Moreira, Silvia B.; Brasil, Patricia; Pissinatti, Alcides; Daniel-Ribeiro, Claudio T.; Brito, Cristiana F. A. (2017). "New potential Plasmodium brasilianum hosts: tamarin and marmoset monkeys (family Callitrichidae)". Malaria Journal. 16 (1): 71. doi:10.1186/s12936-017-1724-0. PMC 5303265. PMID 28187764. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ^ Guimarães, Lilian O.; Wunderlich, Gerhard; Alves, João M. P.; Bueno, Marina G.; Röhe, Fabio; Catão-Dias, José L.; Neves, Amanda; Malafronte, Rosely S.; Curado, Izilda; Domingues, Wilson; Kirchgatter, Karin (2015). "Merozoite surface protein-1 genetic diversity in Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium brasilianum from Brazil". BMC Infect Dis. 15: 529. doi:10.1186/s12879-015-1238-8. PMC 4647813. PMID 26572971.
- ^ Collins, WE; Ruebush, TK; Skinner, JC; Filipski, VK; Broderson, JR; Stanfill, PS; Morris, CL (1990). "The Peruvian III strain of Plasmodium brasilianum in Saimiri sciureus boliviensis monkeys". J Parasitol. 76 (5): 676–80. doi:10.2307/3282981. JSTOR 3282981. PMID 2213410.
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