ArticleTropical medicine and health2019
Complex malaria epidemiology in an international border area between Brazil and French Guiana: challenges for elimination.
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- Imported malaria in Cabo Verde (2010-2024): Risks to post-elimination stability.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
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- CUREMA project: a further step towards malaria elimination among hard-to-reach and mobile populations.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- Clinical and parasitological features of Leishmania infection among gold miners in the Oiapoque basin, an international Brazil-French Guiana border.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Understanding the impact of mobility on Plasmodium spp. carriage in an Amazon cross-border area with low transmission rate.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Livelihood activities, human mobility, and risk of malaria infection in elimination settings: a case-control study.Malaria journal · 2023Article
- An insight to better understanding cross border malaria in Saudi Arabia.Malaria journal · 2023Article
- Representations of COVID-19: the pandemic in the context of international commuting migration from mining.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2023Article
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- Imported malaria definition and minimum data for surveillance.Scientific reports · 2022Review
- Reaching the malaria elimination goal in Brazil: a spatial analysis and time-series study.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2022Article
- On multifactorial drivers for malaria rebound in Brazil: a spatio-temporal analysis.Malaria journal · 2022Article
- Women who live in mining on the French-Brazilian border: daily challenges.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2022Article
- Malaria at international borders: challenges for elimination on the remote Brazil-Peru border.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2022Article
- Self-diagnosis and self-treatment of malaria in hard-to-reach and mobile populations of the Amazon: results of Malakit, an international multicentric intervention research project.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe epidemiological surveillance of malaria is a necessary intervention for eliminating the disease from the planet. The international border zones of the Amazon continue to be highly vulnerable to malaria since population mobility impedes elimination. Although in the past few years, cases of malaria have had an essential reduction in Brazil, this trend was not confirmed in municipalities along the border. This study aimed to establish the epidemiology of the disease during the last 13 years in Oiapoque, a Brazilian municipality at the international border with French Guiana, an overseas department, to develop strategies for the control/elimination of malaria in these areas.
resultsData collected from 2003 to 2015 from the Malaria Epidemiological Surveillance System was used. It was found that, despite the important reduction in cases (68.1%), the annual parasite index remained a high epidemiological risk. The disease is seasonal in that the period of highest transmission occurs between September and December. Between 2003 and 2015, eight outbreaks were identified, with one of these lasting 15 months between August 2006 and October 2007. There were changes in the epidemiological profile, with imported cases representing 67.7% of cases from 2003 to 2007 and representing 32.9% of cases from 2008 to 2015 (
conclusionsThe fragility of local health services in cross-border areas continues to be an obstacle for malaria elimination.
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