Plasmodium simium: Population Genomics Reveals the Origin of a Reverse Zoonosis.
Thaís C de OliveiraPriscila T RodriguesAngela M EarlyAna Maria R C DuarteJulyana C BueryMarina G BuenoJosé L Catão-DiasCrispim CeruttiLuísa D P RonaDaniel E NeafseyMarcelo Urbano FerreiraPublished in: The Journal of infectious diseases (2022)
New World P vivax lineages that switched from humans to platyrrhine monkeys founded the P simium population that infects nonhuman primates and feeds sustained human malaria transmission in the outskirts of major cities.