INTRODUÇÃO: A letalidade da malária na região extra-amazônica é cerca de 80 vezes maior
do que na Amazônia, que concentra 99,8% dos casos do país. Em áreas de transmissão …

Background Malaria was eliminated from southern and southeastern Brazil over 50 years
ago. However, an increasing number of autochthonous episodes attributed to Plasmodium …

Background Severe anaemia is a common complication of Plasmodium falciparum malaria
in hyperendemic regions. Premature elimination of non-parasitized red blood cells (nRBC) …

Background Endemic malaria is present in all 15 municipalities of Roraima state, Brazilian
Amazonia. Knowledge of epidemiological data of specific populations can guide health …

Zoonotic malaria poses a unique problem for malaria control. Autochthonous cases of
human malaria in the Atlantic Forest have recently been attributed to Plasmodium simium, a …

Foram produzidos antígenos solúveis de P. brasiliensis, H. capsulatum e A. fumigatus e
padronizados nas técnicas de imunodifusão dupla (IDD) e imunoeletroosmoforese (IEOF). A …

Background Plasmodium simium, a malaria parasite of non-human primates (NHP), was
recently shown to cause zoonotic infections in humans in Brazil. We sequenced the P. simium …

Here, we describe the standardization of a very sensitive and specific single Plasmodium
vivax polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and its usefulness for diagnosis and screening …

In Brazil, malaria still remains a clinically important febrile syndrome for local populations and
travelers, occurring mostly in the Amazon Basin. This review aims to report the main efforts …

We have optimized a faster and cheaper real-time PCR and developed a conventional
genus specific PCR based on 18S rRNA gene to detect malaria parasites in low-grade …