Ian Hewitt Mendenhall

High diversity and novel host associations of bat haemosporidian parasites in Cambodia: insights from a nationwide bat survey and multilocus analyses

Abstract Background Haemosporidian (“malaria”) parasites are a diverse group of vector-borne apicomplexan parasites that infect a wide range of vertebrate hosts, including humans. Bats harbour a remarkable diversity of haemosporidians and are considered important hosts in the evo...