Detection of new Babesia microti-like parasites in a rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) with a suppressed Plasmodium cynomolgi infection.
A new type of piroplasm, phylogenetically closest to Babesia microti-like parasites previously detected in Eurasian red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris orientis), was identified in a rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) imported from China. After challenge with Plasmodium cynomolgi M strain blood-stage parasites, the rhesus monkey repeatedly showed markedly reduced levels of Plasmodium parasitemia when compared with animals not infected with this organism.
Voorberg-vd Wel
Annemarie
A
Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Department of Parasitology, Rijswijk, The Netherlands. wel@bprc.nl
Kocken
Clemens H M
CH
Zeeman
Anne-Marie
AM
Thomas
Alan W
AW
D000818:Animals; D041001:Babesia microti / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001404:Babesiosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008288:Malaria / Q000150:complications*; D010802:Phylogeny; D016789:Plasmodium cynomolgi