Case series of three malaria patients from Thailand infected with the simian parasite, Plasmodium cynomolgi

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Table 1 Summary of literature on P. cynomolgi cases in Southeast Asia

Location	Sample set	N	Diagnosis by PCR
Borneo Malaysia (Sarawak)²	Malaria patients	332	All mixed infections: P. cynomolgi and P. knowlesi (n = 5)
Borneo Malaysia (Sabah)⁴	Survey for asymptomatic, low-density malaria cases	876	P. cynomolgi (n = 2)
Borneo Malaysia (Kapit)⁵	Malaria patients	1,047	All mixed infections: P. cynomolgi & P. knowlesi (n = 6)
Peninsular Malaysia⁷	Survey of communities living at forest fringe	645	P. cynomolgi (n = 9)
Cambodia (Pailin/Battambang)⁶	Survey of asymptomatic submicroscopic malaria cases	1361	P. cynomolgi (n = 11) Mixed infection of P. cynomolgi & P. vivax (n = 2)

Data on prevalence of P. cynomolgi taken from references 2, 4–7 is summarized. Columns from left to right: location names country and province/state of the study, samples set describes from which population blood samples were collected, and N is number of samples tested by PCR. Diagnosis by PCR presents number of isolates found to have P. cynomolgi mono-infections or P. cynomolgi mixed infections

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