Natural Plasmodium infection in neotropical primates in the island of São Luís, state of Maranhão, Brazil

The states that make up the Legal Amazon Region, which include the state of Maranhão, account for 99% of registered cases of human malaria in Brazil. It is also believed that transmission of malaria from nonhuman primates (NHP) to humans occurs in this region, because of current reports of seroepide...

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Main Authors: Mayra Araguaia Pereira Figueiredo, Silvia Maria Fátima Di Santi, Thaysa Araguaia Pereira Figueiredo, Rosangela Zacarias Machado
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Colégio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria
Series:Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-29612015000200122&lng=en&tlng=en