Brazil

We provide first evidence of emergence of the CVMNT haplotype in West Africa. The high prevalence of pfcrt CVIET and SVMNT haplotypes in Nigeria and Brazil, respectively, is indicative of different selective pressure by chloroquine and amodiaquine.

The resurgence of the malaria eradication agenda and the increasing number of severe manifestation reports has contributed to a renewed interested in the Plasmodium vivax infection.

We evaluated the influence of allelic frequency of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) -DRB1 on the acquisition of antibody response against malaria sporozoite and merozoite peptides in patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria acquired in endemic areas of Brazil.

Compliance with the P. vivax malaria treatment is a characteristic of 242/280 patients in the surveyed region.

The modeling framework presented here combines cross-sectional survey data and syndromic sentinel surveillance data to shed light on several aspects of malaria that are critical for public health policy.

Gestational malaria is a multi-factorial syndrome leading to poor outcomes for both the mother and foetus.

Environmental factors and their alteration are associated with the occurrence and spatial distribution of malaria cases in rural settlements.

Anopheles darlingi depends on forested regions for their larval and adult survival.

These findings confirm the dimorphism of EBA175, since only the two types of fragments were amplified, C-fragment and F-fragment.

The authors emphasize that considering malaria as a possible cause of febrile syndrome should be a post-travel routine, independent of the time elapsed after exposure in the transmission area, even in the absence of malaria chemoprophylaxis.