Malaria outbreaks in a non-endemic area of Brazil, 2005 Surtos de malária em área não endêmica do Brasil, 2005

Malaria outbreaks in a non-endemic area of Brazil, 2005 Surtos de malária em área não endêmica do Brasil, 2005

In March 2005, a resident of the municipality of Monte Alegre de Minas, State of Minas Gerais, without any history of traveling to endemic areas for malaria, was diagnosed with Plasmodium vivax infection and local mosquito-borne transmission was suspected. The epidemiological investigation identifie...

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Main Authors: Jean Ezequiel Limongi, Kátia Maria Chaves, Márcia Beatriz Cardoso de Paula, Fabíola Corrêa da Costa, Alcides de Assis e Silva, Íris de Sousa Lopes, Adalberto de Albuquerque Pajuaba Neto, José Maria Sales, Fernando Rodrigues, Maria Angélica Montes Resende, Marcelo Simão Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2008-06-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Subjects:
Malária
Plasmodium falciparum
Plasmodium vivax
Surtos
Estado de Minas Gerais
Malaria
Outbreaks
State of Minas Gerais
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