Publications
| [malaria outside the brazilian amazonian region: the situation in santa catarina state]. | this study aimed to evaluate the malaria epidemiological aspects in santa catarina state, brazil, by using national health foundation data from 1996 to 2001. from 4,707 thick smears analyzed 5.5% were positive. plasmodium vivax was found in 69.0%; plasmodium falciparum in 25.6%, mixed infection with both in 5%, and plasmodium malariae in only 0.4%. it was observed that 67.4% were heterochthonous cases and 32.6% autochthonous cases. in recent years, the incidence of heterochthonous cases has incr ... | 2003 | 14576872 |
| detection of plasmodium in faeces of the new world primate alouatta clamitans. | plasmodium falciparum and plasmodium vivax have evolved with host switches between non-human primates (nhps) and humans. studies on the infection dynamics of plasmodium species in nhps will improve our understanding of the evolution of these parasites; however, such studies are hampered by the difficulty of handling animals in the field. the aim of this study was to detect genomic dna of plasmodium species from the faeces of new world monkeys. faecal samples from 23 alouatta clamitans from the c ... | 2016 | 27580347 |