We examined the mitogenomes of a large global collection of human malaria parasites to
explore how and when Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax entered the Americas. We found …

Background The population history of Plasmodium simium, which causes malaria in sylvatic
Neotropical monkeys and humans along the Atlantic Coast of Brazil, remains disputed. …

Background The transmission of malaria in the extra-Amazonian regions of Brazil, although
interrupted in the 1960s, has persisted to the present time in some areas of dense Atlantic …

Toxoplasma gondii presents a high prevalence worldwide, infecting several animals.
Felines are considered the definitive hosts and among the intermediate hosts we highlight …

In the south and southeast regions of Brazil, cases of malaria occur outside the endemic
Amazon region near the Atlantic Forest in some coastal states, where Plasmodium vivax is the …

Background The hypotheses put forward to explain the malaria transmission cycle in extra-Amazonian
Brazil, an area of very low malaria incidence, are based on either a zoonotic …

BACKGROUND In southeastern Brazil, autochthonous cases of malaria can be found near
Atlantic Forest fragments. Because the transmission cycle has not been completely clarified, …

The Atlantic Forests outside of the Amazon region in Brazil are low-frequency malaria
hotspots. The disease behaves as a zoonosis maintained by nonhuman primates (NHPs), …

Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium vivax are protozoan parasites that can cause
malaria in humans. They are genetically indistinguishable from, respectively, Plasmodium …

In Brazil, the Amazon region comprises 99.5% of the reported malaria cases. However,
another hotspot of the disease is the Atlantic Forest regions, with the sporadic occurrence of …