Mixed-species Plasmodium infections of humans.
We analyzed point-prevalence data from 35 recent studies of human populations in which Plasmodium falciparum and one other Plasmodium species were the reported causes of malaria infections. For the P. falciparum-Plasmodium vivax pair, higher overall prevalence in a human population is associated with fewer mixed-species infections than expected on the basis of the product of individual species prevalences. This is not true for P. falciparum-Plasmodium malariae.
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Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology; D016778:Malaria, Falciparum / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D016780:Malaria, Vivax / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D010965:Plasmodium malariae; D015995:Prevalence