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Amazonian malaria: Asymptomatic human reservoirs, diagnostic challenges, environmentally driven changes in mosquito vector populations, and the mandate for sustainable control strategies

da Silva-Nunes, M.; Moreno, M.; Conn, J.E.; Gamboa Vilela, Dionicia Baziliza; Abeles, S.; Vinetz, Joseph Michael; Ferreira, M.U. (Elsevier, 2012)

Across the Americas and the Caribbean, nearly 561,000 slide-confirmed malaria infections were reported officially in 2008. The nine Amazonian countries accounted for 89% of these infections; Brazil and Peru alone contributed ...
Community perceptions of health and rodent-borne diseases along the Inter-Oceanic Highway in Madre de Dios, Peru

Salmon-Mulanovich, Gabriela; Powell, Amy-R.; Hartinger Peña, Stella Maria; Schwarz, Lara; Bausch, Daniel-G.; Paz-Soldan Parlette, Valerie Andrea (BioMed Central, 2016)

BACKGROUND: Madre de Dios is located in the southeastern Amazonian region of Peru. Rodents have been estimated to be the reservoirs for up to 50 % of emerging zoonotic pathogens, including a host of viruses, bacteria, and ...
Dispersal patterns of Trypanosoma cruzi in Arequipa, Peru

Berry, Alexander S. F.; Salazar Sánchez, Renzo Sadath; Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Borrini-Mayorí, Katty; Arevalo Nieto, Claudia Rebeca; Chipana-Ramos, Claudia; Vargas-Maquera, Melina; Ancca-Juarez, Jenny; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Levy, Michael Z.; Brisson, Dustin (Public Library of Science, 2020)

Anthropogenic environmental alterations such as urbanization can threaten native populations as well as create novel environments that allow human pests and pathogens to thrive. As the number and size of urban environments ...
New vaccines needed for pathogens infecting animals and humans: One Health

Gutiérrez, A.H.; Spero, D.M.; Gay, C.; Zimic-Peralta, Mirko Juan; De Groot, A.S. (Taylor and Francis, 2012)

The field of "One Health" encourages researchers to collaborate across a wide range of disciplines to improve health at the animal-human- ecosystems interface. One Health recognizes the potential of emerging infectious ...
A score to predict and stratify risk of tuberculosis in adult contacts of tuberculosis index cases: a prospective derivation and external validation cohort study

Saunders, Matthew J.; Wingfield, Tom; Tovar, Marco A.; Baldwin, Matthew R.; Datta, Sumona; Zevallos, Karine; Montoya, Rosario; Valencia, Teresa R.; Friedland, Jon S.; Moulton, Larry H.; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Evans, Carlton Anthony William (Elsevier, 2017)

BACKGROUND: Contacts of tuberculosis index cases are at increased risk of developing tuberculosis. Screening, preventive therapy, and surveillance for tuberculosis are underused interventions in contacts, particularly ...
A validated agent-based model to study the spatial and temporal heterogeneities of malaria incidence in the rainforest environment

Pizzitutti, Francesco; Pan, William; Barbieri, Alisson; Miranda, J. Jaime; Feingold, Beth; Guedes, Gilvan R.; Alarcon-Valenzuela, Javiera; Mena, Carlos F. (BioMed Central, 2015)

BACKGROUND: The Amazon environment has been exposed in the last decades to radical changes that have been accompanied by a remarkable rise of both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria. The malaria transmission ...

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