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T1 Detection and characterization of Plasmodium spp. by semi-nested multiplex PCR both in mosquito vectors and in humans residing in historically endemic areas of Paraguay
A1 del Puerto Rodas, Ramona Florencia
A1 Ozorio, Mónica
A1 Trinidad, Beatriz
A1 Martínez, Nidia
A1 Torales, Martha Rossana
A1 Franco, Luciano
A1 Ferreira, Luis
A1 Vera, Ninfa Isabel
A2 Universidad Nacional de Asunción. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud
AB In Paraguay, no cases of Malaria have been recorded since 2011. Microscopy and the SnM-PCR technique were implemented to detect and characterize Plasmodium spp. both in mosquitoes and in humans residing in historically endemic areas of Paraguay, to evaluate the possibility of finding asymptomatic cases and/or Plasmodium parasites circulating in anophelines. Between 2013 and 2015, 361 human blood samples were collected on filter paper, and between 2016 and 2017, 938 female Anopheles mosquitoes were captured in 15 Paraguayan localities. All the diagnostic techniques showed negative results. We observed no asymptomatic case or Plasmodium circulating in vectors.
PB Elsevier
YR 2020
FD 2020-08-15
LK http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14066/2979
UL http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14066/2979
LA eng
NO Corresponding author at: Department of Tropical Medicine, Research Institute in Health Science (IICS-UNA), National University of Asunción, Campus UNA, San Lorenzo, Paraguay. E-mail addresses: colepuerto@hotmail.com, medicinatropical@iics.una.py. (F. del Puerto).
NO Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
DS MINDS@UW
RD 18-abr-2024