Plasmodium falciparum in the southeastern Atlantic forest: a challenge to the bromeliad-malaria paradigm?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recently an unexpectedly high prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum was found in asymptomatic blood donors living in the southeastern Brazilian Atlantic forest. The bromeliad-malaria paradigm assumes that transmission of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae involves species of the subgenus Kerteszia of Anopheles and only a few cases of P. vivax malaria are reported annually in this region. The expectations of this paradigm are a low prevalence of P. vivax and a null prevalence of P. falciparum. Therefore, the aim of this study was to verify if P. falciparum is actively circulating in the southeastern Brazilian Atlantic forest remains.

Methods

In this study, anophelines were collected with Shannon and CDC-light traps in seven distinct Atlantic forest landscapes o

SUBMITTER: Laporta GZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4417526 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature