Outbreak of human malaria caused by Plasmodium simium in the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro: a molecular epidemiological investigation

Brasil, Patrícia; Zalis, Mariano; de Pina-Costa, Anielle; M. Siqueira, André; Bianco Júnior, Cesare; Silva, Sidnei; Luiz Lisboa Areas, André; Pelajo‐Machado, Marcelo; Anete Madureira de Alvarenga, Denise; Carolina Faria da Silva Santelli, Ana; Gomes Albuquerque, Hermano; Cravo, Pedro; Vieira Santos de Abreu, Filipe; Peterka, Cassio; Maria Zaniní, Graziela; Cecília Suárez-Mútis, Martha; Pissinatti, Alcides; Lourenço‐de‐Oliveira, Ricardo; Ferreira Alves de Brito, Cristiana; de Fátima Ferreira‐da‐Cruz, Maria; Culleton, Richard; Tadeu Daniel‐Ribeiro, Cláudio

doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(17)30333-9

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Outbreak of human malaria caused by Plasmodium simium in the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro: a molecular epidemiological investigation

Published in The Lancet Global Health • Sep 1, 2017

Authors:

Patrícia Brasil

Mariano Zalis

Anielle de Pina-Costa

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Malaria was eliminated from southern and southeastern Brazil over 50 years ago. However, an increasing number of autochthonous episodes attributed to Plasmodium vivax have recently been reported from the Atlantic Forest region of Rio de Janeiro state. As the P vivax-like non-human primat...

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Malaria

Plasmodium vivax

Enzootic

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