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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 78(4), 2008, pp. 643-645
Copyright © 2008 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Detection of New Babesia microti-like Parasites in a Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta) with a Suppressed Plasmodium cynomolgi Infection

Annemarie Voorberg-v.d. Wel, Clemens H. M. Kocken, Anne-Marie Zeeman, AND Alan W. Thomas*
Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Department of Parasitology, Rijswijk, The Netherlands

 

ABSTRACT

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.

Received October 31, 2007. Accepted for publication January 29, 2008.

Acknowledgments: The authors thank members of the Animal Science Department of the BPRC for expert animal care and Ernst Verschoor for advice on phylogenetic analyses.

* Address correspondence to Alan W. Thomas, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Department of Parasitology, Lange Kleiweg 139, 2288 GJ Rijswijk, The Netherlands. E-mail: thomas{at}bprc.nl

Authors’ addresses: Annemarie Voorberg-v.d. Wel, Clemens H. M. Kocken, Anne-Marie Zeeman, and Alan W. Thomas, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Department of Parasitology, Lange Kleiweg 139, 2288 GJ Rijswijk, The Netherlands, E-mails: wel{at}bprc.nl,kocken{at}bprc.nl, zeeman{at}bprc.nl, and thomas{at}bprc.nl.

Reprint requests: Alan W. Thomas, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Department of Parasitology, Lange Kleiweg 139, 2288 GJ Rijswijk, The Netherlands, E-mail: thomas{at}bprc.nl.






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