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

• Main Authors: Dr Patrícia Brasil, MD (Author), Mariano Gustavo Zalis, PhD (Author), Anielle de Pina-Costa, PhD (Author), Andre Machado Siqueira, MD (Author), Cesare Bianco Júnior, BSc (Author), Sidnei Silva, MSc (Author), André Luiz Lisboa Areas, MSc (Author), Prof Marcelo Pelajo-Machado, MD (Author), Denise Anete Madureira de Alvarenga, MSc (Author), Ana Carolina Faria da Silva Santelli, MD (Author), Hermano Gomes Albuquerque, MSc (Author), Pedro Cravo, PhD (Author), Filipe Vieira Santos de Abreu, MSc (Author), Cassio Leonel Peterka, MSc (Author), Graziela Maria Zanini, PhD (Author), Martha Cecilia Suárez Mutis, PhD (Author), Alcides Pissinatti, PhD (Author), Prof Ricardo Lourenço- (Author), Prof Cristiana Ferreira Alves de Brito, PhD (Author), Prof Maria de Fátima Ferreira- (Author), Richard Culleton, PhD (Author), Prof Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...