Reemergence of human malaria in Atlantic Forest of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Unforeseen Plasmodium infections in the Atlantic Forest of Brazilian Extra-Amazonian region could jeopardise malaria elimination. A human malaria case was registered in Três Forquilhas, in the Atlantic Forest biome of Rio Grande do Sul, after a 45 years’ time-lapsed without any malaria autochthonous...

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Autores principales: de Lemos, Alessandra Bittencourt, da Silva, Onilda Santos, Deboni, Sandra Cristina, Schallemberger, Valdir, dos Santos, Edmilson, de Almeida, Marco Antônio Barreto, Marth, Anne Andrea Dockhorn, Silva, Sidnei, Mello, Aline Rosa de Lavigne, Silva-do-Nascimento, Teresa Fernandes, Ferreira-da-Cruz, Maria de Fátima, Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Ricardo, Cardoso, Jáder da Cruz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8279121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34259737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0074-02760210064
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Sumario:Unforeseen Plasmodium infections in the Atlantic Forest of Brazilian Extra-Amazonian region could jeopardise malaria elimination. A human malaria case was registered in Três Forquilhas, in the Atlantic Forest biome of Rio Grande do Sul, after a 45 years’ time-lapsed without any malaria autochthonous notification in this southern Brazilian state. This finding represents the expansion of the malaria distribution areas in Brazil and the southernmost human malaria case record in South America in this decade. The coexistence of the bromeliad-breeding vector Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii and non-human primates in the Atlantic Forest regularly visited by the patient claimed for the zoonotic origin of this infection. The reemergence of Atlantic Forest human malaria in Rio Grande do Sul was also discussed.

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