Volume 27, Number 10—October 2021
Dispatch
Natural Plasmodium inui Infections in Humans and Anopheles cracens Mosquito, Malaysia
Jonathan W.K. Liew, Fatma D. Mohd Bukhari, Nantha Kumar Jeyaprakasam, Wei Kit Phang, Indra Vythilingam, and Yee Ling Lau
Table
Nucleotide BLAST results of the PCR products sequenced in a study of natural transmission of Plasmodium inui in 2 humans and in Anopheles cracens mosquitoes, Malaysia*
| Sequence source and length, bp (GenBank accession no.) |
Description of sequence (GenBank accession no.) |
% Identity |
% Query cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patient PMAR0041, 234 (MW555281) | Plasmodium inui asexual type 18S rRNA, Celebes (AB287276) | 99.57† | 100 |
| P. inui asexual type, 18S rRNA, Thailand (EU400385) | 99.57 | 100 | |
| P. inui asexual type, 18S rRNA, Taiwan I (FN430724) |
99.57 |
100 |
|
| Patient PMAR0052, 243 (MW555282) | P. inui sexual type, 18S rRNA, Taiwan I (FN429982) | 99.59† | 100 |
| P. inui 18S rRNA, Anopheles latens mosquito, Sarawak (MN535358) | 99.18‡ | 100 | |
| P. inui sexual type, 18S rRNA from monkey (FJ619103) | 99.18 | 100 | |
| P. inui 18S rRNA, wild monkey, Thailand (EU400386) |
99.18 |
100 |
|
| An. cracens, 986 (MW555286) | P. inui asexual type, 18S rRNA, Celebes (AB287276) | 99.90† | 100 |
| P. inui 18S rRNA, An. latens, Sarawak (MN535320) | 99.80‡ | 100 | |
| P. inui asexual type 18S rRNA, wild monkey, Thailand (EU400385) | 99.70 | 100 | |
| P. inui asexual type 18S rRNA, South China (HM032051) | 99.49 | 100 | |
| P. inui asexual type 18S rRNA, Taiwan II (FN430725) | 99.49 | 100 | |
*BLAST, https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. bp, base pair. †This sequence had only a 1 single-nucleotide mismatch at the forward primer priming site. ‡This sequence had 2 single-nucleotide mismatches, 1 at the forward primer priming site.
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