Howler monkeys are the reservoir of malarial parasites causing zoonotic infections in the Atlantic forest of Rio de Janeiro.

• Main Authors: Filipe Vieira Santos de Abreu (Author), Edmilson Dos Santos (Author), Aline Rosa Lavigne Mello (Author), Larissa Rodrigues Gomes (Author), Denise Anete Madureira de Alvarenga (Author), Marcelo Quintela Gomes (Author), Waldemir Paixão Vargas (Author), Cesare Bianco-Júnior (Author), Anielle de Pina-Costa (Author), Danilo Simonini Teixeira (Author), Alessandro Pecego Martins Romano (Author), Pedro Paulo de Abreu Manso (Author), Marcelo Pelajo-Machado (Author), Patrícia Brasil (Author), Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro (Author), Cristiana Ferreira Alves de Brito (Author), Maria de Fátima Ferreira- (Author), Ricardo Lourenço- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Although malaria cases have substantially decreased in Southeast Brazil, a significant increase in the number of Plasmodium vivax-like autochthonous human cases has been reported in remote areas of the Atlantic Forest in the past few decades in Rio de Janeiro (RJ) state, including an outb...