Natural Plasmodium infections in Brazilian wild monkeys: Reservoirs for human infections?

Acta Tropica

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 179-185

  de Castro Duarte, Ana Maria Ribeiro ^a   Malafronte, Rosely dos Santos ^b   Cerutti Jr , Crispim ^c   Curado, Izilda ^a   de Paiva, Byanca Regina ^b   Maeda, Adriana Yurika ^b   Yamasaki, Tasciane ^b   Summa, Maria Eugênia Laurito ^d   Neves, Dafne do Valle Dutra de Andrade ^d   de Oliveira, Salma Gomes ^e   Gomes, Almério de Castro ^b  

^a SUPERINTENDÊNCIA DE CONTROLE DE ENDEMIAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Centro de Ciências da Saú   (Brazil)

^d Divisão Técnica de Medicina Veterinária DEPAVE3 Secretaria do Verde e do Meio Ambiente de São Paulo   (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Epidemiology; New world monkeys; Polymerase chain reaction; Reservoir; Simian malaria

Indexed keywords

CERRADO; EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; PROTOZOAN; WILD POPULATION;

ALOUATTA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; BRAZIL; CEBIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST; INFECTION RATE; MALARIA; MARMOSET; MICROSCOPY; MONKEY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SCREENING TEST; WILD ANIMAL;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA CARAYA; ALOUATTA GUARIBA CLAMITANS; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; CALLITHRIX SP.; CEBUS APELLA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM SP.; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLATYRRHINI; SIMIAE;

EID: 47749110196     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.05.020     Document Type: Article

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