First Full Draft Genome Sequence of Plasmodium brasilianum

Published in Genome Announcements, 2017

Recommended citation: Talundzic E, Ravishankar S, Nayak V, Patel DS, Olsen C, Sheth M, Batra D, Loparev V, Vannberg FO, Udhayakumar V, Barnwell JW. First full draft genome sequence of Plasmodium brasilianum. Genome Announcements. 2017 Feb 9;5(6):10-128. https://journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1128/genomea.01566-16

Plasmodium malariae is a protozoan parasite that can cause human malaria. The simian parasite Plasmodium brasilianum infects New World monkeys from Latin America and is morphologically indistinguishable from P. malariae. Here, we report the first full draft genome sequence for P. brasilianum.

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Recommended citation: Talundzic E, Ravishankar S, Nayak V, Patel DS, Olsen C, Sheth M, Batra D, Loparev V, Vannberg FO, Udhayakumar V, Barnwell JW. First full draft genome sequence of Plasmodium brasilianum. Genome Announcements. 2017 Feb 9;5(6):10-128.