A virus associated with the zoonotic pathogen Plasmodium knowlesi causing human malaria is a member of a diverse and unclassified viral taxon
Petrone M, Charon J, Grigg M, William T, Rajahram G, Westaway J, Piera K, Shi M, Anstey N, Holmes E. A virus associated with the zoonotic pathogen Plasmodium knowlesi causing human malaria is a member of a diverse and unclassified viral taxon. Virus Evolution 2024, 10: veae091. PMCID: PMC11605544, DOI: 10.1093/ve/veae091.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchViral taxaRNA virusesAnalysis of metagenomic dataPlasmodium speciesSingle-celled eukaryotesHuman-infecting Plasmodium speciesPathogen life cycleGenome architectureGroup of virusesMetagenomic dataMetagenomic sequencingDisease-causingVirus discoveryTaxaViral diversityParasite PlasmodiumRNAInfecting protozoaPlasmodium knowlesiViromeHuman malariaParasite fitnessSpeciesApicomplexaInfect humans