منابع مشابه
Malaria in gold-mining areas in Colombia
Gold-mining may play an important role in the maintenance of malaria worldwide. Gold-mining, mostly illegal, has significantly expanded in Colombia during the last decade in areas with limited health care and disease prevention. We report a descriptive study that was carried out to determine the malaria prevalence in gold-mining areas of Colombia, using data from the public health surveillance ...
متن کاملGold mining areas in Suriname: reservoirs of malaria resistance?
BACKGROUND At present, malaria cases in Suriname occur predominantly in migrants and people living and/or working in areas with gold mining operations. A molecular survey was performed in Plasmodium falciparum isolates originating from persons from gold mining areas to assess the extent and role of mining areas as reservoirs of malaria resistance in Suriname. METHODS The status of 14 putative...
متن کاملHeterogeneity of malaria prevalence in alluvial gold mining areas in Northern Mato Grosso State, Brazil.
This paper analyzes factors affecting the risk of malaria among individuals working in wildcat gold mining camps (garimpos) in northern Mato Grosso State in the Brazilian Amazon. Historically, such mining camps have the locations with the highest malaria prevalence in the Brazilian Amazon. However, little attention has focused on understanding the disease from the internal perspective of the mi...
متن کاملMalaria entomological inoculation rates in gold mining areas of Southern Venezuela.
A longitudinal study of malaria vectors aiming to describe the intensity of transmission was carried out in five villages of Southern Venezuela between January 1999-April 2000. The man-biting, sporozoite and entomological inoculation rates (EIR) were calculated based on 121 all-night collections of anophelines landing on humans, CDC light traps and ultra violet up-draft traps. A total of 6,027 ...
متن کاملMalaria in French Guiana Linked to Illegal Gold Mining
Shapiro HM, et al. Light depolarization measurements in malaria: A new job for an old friend. Cytometry A. 2015;87:437–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cyto.a.22659 5. Rebelo M, Shapiro HM, Amaral T, Melo-Cristino J, Hänscheid T. Haemozoin detection in infected erythrocytes for Plasmodium falciparum malaria diagnosis-prospects and limitations. Acta Trop. 2012;123:58–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0074-0276
DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150382