Volume 13, Number 6—June 2007

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Plasmodium malariae in Haitian Refugees, Jamaica

John F. Lindo* , Jeanette Horner Bryce†, Marion Bullock Ducasse†, Christina Howitt‡, Donnett M. Barrett*, Jacob Lorenzo Morales§, Rosalynn Ord‡, Martina Burke‡, Peter L Chiodini‡¶, and Colin J. Sutherland‡¶

Author affiliations: *University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; †Ministry of Health, Kingston, Jamaica; ‡London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; §University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; ¶Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, UK;

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Figure. Comparison of Plasmodium malariae (Pm) rRNA gene sequences (GenBank accession nos. AF487999, AF145336, AF488000) and P. brasilianum (Pb) sequences from a monkey from French Guiana (Fr Gu) (AF130735) with isolates from P. malariae of humans from Haiti (Haiti Pm).

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