Article
Howler monkeys are the reservoir of malarial parasites causing zoonotic infections in the Atlantic forest of Rio de Janeiro
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ABREU, Filipe Vieira Santos de et al. Howler monkeys are the reservoir of malarial parasites causing zoonotic infections in the Atlantic forest of Rio de Janeiro. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. v. 12, n. 12, e0007906, 17p, Dec. 2019.
1932-6203
10.1371/journal.pntd.0007906
Autor
Abreu, Filipe Vieira Santos de
Santos, Edmilson Dos
Mello, Aline Rosa Lavigne
Gomes, Larissa Rodrigues
Alvarenga, Denise Anete Madureira de
Gomes, Marcelo Quintela
Vargas, Waldemir Paixão
Bianco Júnior, Cesare
Pina-Costa, Anielle de
Teixeira, Danilo Simonini
Romano, Alessandro Pecego Martins
Manso, Pedro Paulo de Abreu
Machado, Marcelo Pelajo
Brasil, Patrícia
Ribeiro, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel
Brito, Cristiana Ferreira Alves de
Cruz, Maria de Fátima Ferreira da
Oliveira, Ricardo Lourenço de
Resumen
Although malaria cases have substantially decreased in Southeast Brazil, a significant increase in the number of Plasmodium vivax-like autochthonous human cases has been reported in remote areas of the Atlantic Forest in the past few decades in Rio de Janeiro (RJ) state, including an outbreak during 2015-2016. The singular clinical and epidemiological aspects in several human cases, and collectively with molecular and genetic data, revealed that they were due to the non-human primate (NHP) parasite Plasmodium simium; however, the understanding of the autochthonous malarial epidemiology in Southeast Brazil can only be acquired by assessing the circulation of NHP Plasmodium in the foci and determining its hosts.