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Importance of Entomological Studies in Evaluating the Malarious Potential in Brazil

2019; Oxford University Press; Volume: 56; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/jme/tjz090

ISSN

1938-2928

Autores

Walter Santos de Araújo,

Tópico(s)

Vector-borne infectious diseases

Resumo

To the Editor, Historically, malaria has been one of the most important zoonoses in Brazil, particularly in the Amazon region (Barata 1995, Alves et al. 2005). The disease is caused by protozoa of the genus Plasmodium, which are transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles (Culicidae, Diptera) (Consoli and Lourenço-de-Oliveira 1994, Harbach 2004). The genus Anopheles is comprises of about 472 species globally (Harbach and Kitching 2016), of which 64 occur in Brazil (Hutchings et al. 2019). The most important species in the transmission of malaria in Brazil are Anopheles (Nys.) darlingi Root, An. (Nys.) aquasalis Curry, An. (Nys.) marajoara Galvão and Damasceno, An. (Nys.) triannulatus (Neiva and Pinto), An. (Nys.) braziliensis (Chagas), An. (Ker.) cruzii Dyar and Knab, and An. (Ker.) bellator Dyar and Knab (Tadei and Dutary Thatcher 2000, Hiwat and Bretas 2011, Griffing et al. 2015). These, and other species of anopheline vectors, are widely distributed throughout the country, but especially in the Amazon basin (Consoli and Lourenço-de-Oliveira 1994, Alves et al. 2005, Pedro and Sallum 2009).

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