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1 September 2003 Seasonal Malaria Transmission and Variation of Anopheline Density in Two Distinct Endemic Areas in Brazilian Amazônia
Luís H. Soares Gil, Fabiana P. Alves, Helge Zieler, Juan M. V. Salcedo, Rui R. Durlacher, Roberto P. A. Cunha, Mauro S. Tada, Luiz M. A. Camargo, Erney P. Camargo, Luiz H. Pereira-Da-Silva
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Studies on seasonal anopheline fauna variation were performed in two distinct settlements in the State of Rondônia, Brazil: one at the Madeira River banks (Portuchuelo) with stable native Amazonian population; the other at an inland lumber-extracting farm (Urupá) in dry land, in which adults are mostly migrants. During a 6-yr period (1994–2000), 8,638 adult anophelines were collected: 2,684 in Urupá and 5,954 in Portuchuelo. Anopheles darlingi represented >95% of total mosquitoes caught. Dissection of 4,424 A. darlingi females yielded a very low sporozoite infection index below 0.1%. Oocysts were found in both localities in ∼0.1% of dissected mosquitoes. Determination of the hour biting rates disclosed seasonal variations in both localities. However, in Portuchuelo, mosquito density peaked at the acme of the rainy season, whereas at Urupá it peaked in the dry season. The increase in mosquito density and incidence of malaria cases were coincident. The high mosquito densities observed in the riverine settlement of Portochuelo sector B, which permits evaluation in >10,000 mosquitoes’ bites/person/year, could explain, in spite of the low mosquito’s infection index, the previously described development of natural immunity in the local population that is not observed in the dry land agroindustrial settlement of Urupá.

Luís H. Soares Gil, Fabiana P. Alves, Helge Zieler, Juan M. V. Salcedo, Rui R. Durlacher, Roberto P. A. Cunha, Mauro S. Tada, Luiz M. A. Camargo, Erney P. Camargo, and Luiz H. Pereira-Da-Silva "Seasonal Malaria Transmission and Variation of Anopheline Density in Two Distinct Endemic Areas in Brazilian Amazônia," Journal of Medical Entomology 40(5), 636-641, (1 September 2003). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-2585-40.5.636
Received: 18 June 2002; Accepted: 1 April 2003; Published: 1 September 2003
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KEYWORDS
Amazon region
Anopheles
malaria
Plasmodium
transmission
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