Simian malaria at two sites in the Brazilian Amazon - II: Vertical distribution and frequency of anopheline species inside and outside the forest

• Main Authors: Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Sergio LB Luz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 1996-12-01
• Series: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
• Subjects: simian malaria vectors; Anopheles; Culicidae; Plasmodium brasilianum
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761996000600005

An anopheline survey was carried out in two simian malaria areas in the Brazilian Amazon, Balbina and Samuel, to determine the potential vectors of Plasmodium brasilianum. The most abundant and/or acrodendrophilic anophelines in the forest and the most likely vector were Anopheles mediopunctatus, An. nuneztovari, An. oswaldoi, An. triannulatus and An. shannoni. An. darlingi and An. marajoara were captured essentially in anthropic habitats outside the forest and are unlikely to be involved in the transmission of P. brasilianum among monkeys within the forests and from monkeys to man in their surroundings in the Amazon.