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Detection of natural infection in Anopheles captured in two parks characterized by Atlantic Forest cover in São Paulo
Objectives
This work aims to carry out the analysis of natural infection by plasmodium, through the PCR technique in real time in Anopheles captured in an area with recent focus of human malaria in Parelheiros sub-district, Municipality São Paulo. Concurrently, this project intend to also look into natural infection in Anopheles captured in the Serra da Cantareira, where it is unaware of the current entomological situation, but it is known the occurrence of simian malaria in apes these forests, but not in recorded human cases
The autochthonous malaria occurring in the Atlantic Forest involves mildly symptomatic human cases, with parasitemias sub-patent, the presence of apes with plasmodium similar to Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae and the presence of Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii, which so far is only species incriminated as the vector.
Knowing the gaps in understanding the transmission chain, it is of utmost importance to deepen the studies to verify the possible role of other species of Anopheles in disease transmission.
May 2015 — Dec 2016
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