Malaria outbreaks in a non-endemic area of Brazil, 2005
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Malaria outbreaks in a non-endemic area of Brazil, 2005.
In March 2005, a resident of the municipality of Monte Alegre de Minas, State of Minas Gerais, without any history of traveling to endemic areas for malaria, was diagnosed with Plasmodium vivax infection and local mosquito-borne transmission was suspected. The epidemiological investigation identified another 10 cases with local transmission and all of them were related to the imported malaria c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0037-8682
DOI: 10.1590/s0037-86822008000300002