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Journal of Medical Primatology
; 40(6): 392-400, Dez, 2011.
Artículo
en Inglés
| Sec. Est. Saúde SP, SESSP-SUCENPROD, Sec. Est. Saúde SP
| ID: biblio-1064296
RESUMEN
In some states of the Brazilian extra-Amazonian region, such as the Atlantic Forest area, autochthonous human cases of malaria were related to simian malarias and vice versa. METHODS:To verify the presence of Plasmodium, 50 blood samples of howler monkeys (Alouatta guariba clamitans) rescued from the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo city, where the Atlantic Forest is present, were analyzed. The samples were submitted to microscopy (thin and thick blood smears), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), indirect immunofluorescent assay (IFA), and polymerase chain reaction (PCR)...