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Evolutionary relatedness of some primate models of Plasmodium 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Primate--and, specifically, monkey--malaria infections are commonly used
for understanding the pathology of and immune response to the human disease
because they are thought to resemble most closely the host-parasite
relationship found in humans. Plasmodium cynomolgi is used extensively as a
model for the human parasite, P. vivax, and P. knowlesi is used primarily
as a model for the development of erythrocytic-stage vaccines. Both of
these simian parasites can naturally infect man, resulting in mildly
symptomatic episodes of the disease. The phylogenetic relationship between
these two simian parasites and previously characterized Plasmodium species,
including P. vivax, was examined by comparison of the asexually expressed
small- subunit ribosomal RNA genes. Our analysis confirmed that P. vivax is
most closely related to P. cynomolgi and that it remains an appropriate
model of the human pathogen. Furthermore, with P. knowlesi and P. fragile,
these two species form a group of closely related species, distant from
other Plasmodium species. What is considered to be the most ancient of the
human malaria pathogens, P. malariae, was also included in the analysis and
does not group at all with other simian or human parasites.
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