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Title: | Finding connections in the unexpected detection of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum DNA in asymptomatic blood donors: a fact in the Atlantic Forest |
Authors: | SALLUM, Maria Anice Mureb; DANIEL-RIBEIRO, Claudio Tadeu; LAPORTA, Gabriel Zorello; FERREIRA-DA-CRUZ, Maria de Fatima; MASELLI, Luciana Morganti Ferreira; LEVY, Debora; BYDLOWSKI, Sergio Paulo |
Citation: | MALARIA JOURNAL, v.13, article ID 337, 5p, 2014 |
Abstract: | A recent paper in Malaria Journal reported the observation of unexpected prevalence rates of healthy individuals carrying Plasmodium falciparum (5.14%) or Plasmodium vivax (2.26%) DNA among blood donors from the main transfusion centre in the metropolitan Sao Paulo, a non-endemic area for malaria. The article has been challenged by a group of authors who argued that the percentages reported were higher than those found in blood banks of the endemic Amazon Region and also that that paper had not considered the literature on the classical dynamics of malaria transmission in the Atlantic Forest, which involves Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii and bromeliad malaria, due to P. vivax and Plasmodium malariae parasites, but not P. falciparum. The present commentary paper responds to this challenge and brings evidence and literature data supporting that the observed prevalence ratios may indicate a proportion of individuals that are exposed to Plasmodium transmission in permissive environments; that blood carrying parasite DNA may not be necessarily infective if used in transfusion; and that in the literature, there are examples supporting the circulation of P. falciparum in the area. |
Appears in Collections: | Artigos e Materiais de Revistas Científicas - FM/MCM Artigos e Materiais de Revistas Científicas - LIM/31 Artigos e Materiais de Revistas Científicas - ODS/03 |
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