Article
Reemergence of human malaria in Atlantic Forest of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Registro en:
LEMOS, Alessandra Bittencourt de et al. Reemergence of human malaria in Atlantic Forest of Rio Grande do Sul. Memória do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, v. 116, e 210064, 5 p, 2021.
0074-0276
10.1590/0074-02760210064
1678-8060
Autor
Lemos, Alessandra Bittencourt de
Silva, Onilda Santos da
Deboni, Sandra Cristina
Schallemberger, Valdir
Santos, Edmilson dos
Almeida, Marco Antônio Barreto de
Marth, Anne Andrea Dockhorn
Silva, Sidnei
Mello, Aline Rosa de Lavigne
Nascimento, Teresa Fernandes Silva do
Cruz, Maria de Fátima Ferreira da
Oliveira, Ricardo Lourenço de
Cardoso, Jáder da Cruz
Resumen
Unforeseen Plasmodium infections in the Atlantic Forest of Brazilian Extra-Amazonian region could jeopardise malaria
elimination. A human malaria case was registered in Três Forquilhas, in the Atlantic Forest biome of Rio Grande do Sul, after a
45 years’ time-lapsed without any malaria autochthonous notification in this southern Brazilian state. This finding represents the
expansion of the malaria distribution areas in Brazil and the southernmost human malaria case record in South America in this
decade. The coexistence of the bromeliad-breeding vector Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii and non-human primates in the Atlantic
Forest regularly visited by the patient claimed for the zoonotic origin of this infection. The reemergence of Atlantic Forest human
malaria in Rio Grande do Sul was also discussed.