dc.creatorPiñeros Jiménez, Juan Gabriel
dc.creatorArevalo Herrera, Myriam
dc.creatorQuiñones, Martha Lucía
dc.creatorGuerra, Carlos
dc.creatorCéspedes, Nora
dc.creatorGiron, Sandra
dc.creatorAhumada, Martha
dc.creatorPadilla, Norma
dc.creatorTerrientes, Zilka
dc.creatorRosas, Ángel
dc.creatorPadilla, Julio Cesar
dc.creatorEscalante, Ananias A.
dc.creatorBeierm, John C.
dc.creatorHerrera, Socrates
dc.date2022-09-05T14:31:11Z
dc.date2022-09-05T14:31:11Z
dc.date2012
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-28T19:44:15Z
dc.date.available2023-08-28T19:44:15Z
dc.identifier0001-706X
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10495/30399
dc.identifier10.1016/j.actatropica.2011.06.008
dc.identifier1873-6254
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8467532
dc.descriptionABSTRACT: Approximately 170 million inhabitants of the American continent live at risk of malaria transmission. Although the continent’s contribution to the global malaria burden is small, at least 1 to 1.2 million malaria cases are reported annually. Sixty per cent of the malaria cases occur in Brazil and the other 40% are distributed in 20 other countries of Central and South America. Plasmodium vivax is the predominant species (74.2 %) followed by P. falciparum (25.7 %) and P. malariae (0.1%), and no less than 10 Anopheles species have been identified as primary or secondary malaria vectors. Rapid deforestation and agricultural practices are directly related to increases in Anopheles species diversity and abundance, as well as in the number of malaria cases. Additionally, climate changes profoundly affect malaria transmission and are responsible for malaria epidemics in some regions of South America. Parasite drug resistance is increasing, but due to bio-geographic barriers there is extraordinary genetic differentiation of parasites with limited dispersion. Although the clinical spectrum ranges from uncomplicated to severe malaria cases, due to the generally low to middle transmission intensity, features such as severe anemia, cerebral malaria and other complications appear to be less frequent than in other endemic regions and asymptomatic infections are a common feature. Although the National Malaria Control Programs (NMCP) of different countries differ in their control activities these are all directed to reduce morbidity and mortality by using strategies like health promotion, vector control and impregnate bed nets among others. Recently, international initiatives such as the Malaria Control Program in Andean-country Border Regions (PAMAFRO) (implemented by the Andean Organism for Health (ORAS) and sponsored by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)) and The Amazon Network for the Surveillance of Antimalarial Drug Resistance (RAVREDA) (sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and several other partners), have made great investments for malaria control in the region. We describe here the current status of malaria in a non-Amazonian region comprising several countries of South and Central America participating in the Centro Latino Americano de Investigación en Malaria (CLAIM), an International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR) sponsored by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
dc.descriptionCOL0007524
dc.format12
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.languagespa
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisherGrupo Malaria
dc.publisherÁmsterdam, Países Bajos
dc.relationActa Trop.
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/co/
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectMalaria
dc.subjectPlasmodium vivax
dc.subjectPlasmodium falciparum
dc.subjectAmérica Latina
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.subjectEpidemiología
dc.subjectEpidemiology
dc.titleMalaria in selected non-Amazonian countries of Latin America
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.typehttps://purl.org/redcol/resource_type/ART
dc.typeArtículo de investigación


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