Heterogeneity of malaria prevalence in alluvial gold mining areas in Northern Mato Grosso State, Brazil Heterogeneidade da prevalência de malária em garimpos do norte de Mato Grosso, Brasil

• Principais autores: Alisson Flávio Barbieri (Autor), Diana Oya Sawyer (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2007-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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This paper analyzes factors affecting the risk of malaria among individuals working in wildcat gold mining camps (garimpos) in northern Mato Grosso State in the Brazilian Amazon. Historically, such mining camps have the locations with the highest malaria prevalence in the Brazilian Amazon. However,...