Last Updated: 08/11/2024
Spatial and temporal dynamics of malaria transmission in residual hotspots in the Brazilian Amazon
Objectives
The ultimate goal of this project is improving current strategies for malaria control and elimination in Brazil.
The specific objective of this project is by combining classical epidemiological approaches, to characterize risk factors and intervention targets, with population genetics/genomics analyses of parasites.
With 143,910 laboratory-confirmed cases and 41 malaria-related deaths in 2014, Brazil has launched, in November 2015, the Malaria Elimination Plan, with the short-term goal of interrupting Plasmodium falciparum transmission countrywide over the next 15 years. The focal nature of malaria transmission in Brazil suggests that elimination efforts will require a careful prioritization of a few residual malaria pockets. The field-based studies in the main endemic area of Brazil (Juruá Valley, close to the border with Peru, which accounts for 20% of all infections in this country), focus on asymptomatic infections with low-level parasitemias that create a large and undetected reservoir of infection.
Jun 2018 — Apr 2021
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