Atlantic Forest Malaria: A Review of More than 20 Years of Epidemiological Investigation
- Autores: Julyana Cerqueira Buery, Filomena Euridice Carvalho de Alencar, Ana Maria Ribeiro de Castro Duarte, Ana Carolina Loss, Creuza Rachel Vicente, Lucas Mendes Ferreira, Blima Fux, Márcia Melo Medeiros, Pedro Cravo, Ana Paula Arez, Crispim Cerutti Junior
- Ano de Publicação: 2021
- Journal: Microorganisms, 9(1), art 132
- Link: https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9010132
ABSTRACT In the south and southeast regions of Brazil, cases of malaria occur outside the endemic Amazon region near the Atlantic Forest in some coastal states, where Plasmodium vivax is the recognized parasite. Characteristics of cases and vectors, especially Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii, raise the hypothesis of a zoonosis with simians as reservoirs. The present review […]
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