Molecular evidence for a single taxon, Anopheles nuneztovari s.l., from two endemic malaria regions in Colombia Luz Marina Jaramillo; Lina A Gutiérrez; Shirley Luckhart; Jan E Conn; Margarita M Correa PAGE: 1017-1023 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000800020

Malaria diagnosis from pooled blood samples: comparative analysis of real-time PCR, nested PCR and immunoassay as a platform for the molecular and serological diagnosis of malaria on a large-scale Giselle FMC Lima; José E Levi; Marcelo P Geraldi; Maria Carmen A Sanchez; Aluísio AC Segurado; Angélica D Hristov; Juliana Inoue; Maria de Jesus Costa-Nascimento; Silvia M Di Santi PAGE: 691-700 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000600008

Malaria seroprevalence in blood bank donors from endemic and non-endemic areas of Venezuela Carmen Elena Contreras; Marcos de Donato; María Ana Rivas; Hectorina Rodulfo; Robert Mora; María Eulalia Batista; Norka Marcano PAGE: 123-129 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000200002

Species composition and natural infectivity of anthropophilic Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) in the states of Córdoba and Antioquia, Northwestern Colombia Lina A Gutiérrez; John J González; Giovan F Gómez; Martha I Castro; Doris A Rosero; Shirley Luckhart; Jan E Conn; Margarita M Correa PAGE: 1117-1124 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000800008

The role of platelet and plasma markers of antioxidant status and oxidative stress in thrombocytopenia among patients with vivax malaria Claudio F Araujo; Marcus VG Lacerda; Dulcineia SP Abdalla; Emerson S Lima PAGE: 517-521 | DOI: S0074-02762008000600001

Effect of Solanum nudum steroids on uninfected and Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes Mary Luz López; Silvia Blair; Jairo Sáez; Cesar Segura PAGE: 683-688 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000500003

Characterisation of pvmdr1 and pvdhfr genes associated with chemoresistance in Brazilian Plasmodium vivax isolates Bianca Ervatti Gama; Natália Ketrin Almeida de Oliveira; José Maria de Souza; Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro; Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz PAGE: 1009-1011 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000700012

Naturally acquired antibodies to merozoite surface protein (MSP)-119 and cumulative exposure to Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in remote populations of the Amazon Basin of Brazil Simone Ladeia-Andrade; Marcelo Urbano Ferreira; Kézia Katiani Gorza Scopel; Érika Martins Braga; Melissa da Silva Bastos; Gerhard Wunderlich; José Rodrigues Coura PAGE: 943-951 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007000800009

Population structure of the malaria vector Anopheles darlingi in Rondônia, Brazilian Amazon, based on mitochondrial DNA Aline F Angêlla; Luis HS Gil; Luis HP da Silva; Paulo EM Ribolla PAGE: 953-958 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007000800010

Germline transformation of Aedes fluviatilis (Diptera:Culicidae) with the piggyBac transposable element Flávia Guimarães Rodrigues; Sabrina Barbosa Oliveira; Bruno Coelho Rocha; Luciano Andrade Moreira PAGE: 755-757 | DOI: S0074-02762006000700008

Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection induces thymocyte apoptosis and thymocyte depletion in CBA mice Leonardo JM Carvalho; Maria F Ferreira-da-Cruz; Claudio T Daniel-Ribeiro; Marcelo Pelajo-Machado; Henrique L Lenzi PAGE: 523-528 | DOI: S0074-02762006000500007

Susceptibility of Anopheles aquasalis and An. darlingi to Plasmodium vivax VK210 and VK247 Ana NM da Silva; Carla CB Santos; Raimundo N Lacerda; Ricardo LD Machado; Marinete M Póvoa PAGE: 547-550 | DOI: S0074-02762006000500011

Perspectives in the control of infectious diseases by transgenic mosquitoes in the post-genomic era – A Review Márcia Aparecida Sperança; Margareth Lara Capurro PAGE: 425-433 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000054

A new challenge for malaria control in Brazil: asymptomatic Plasmodium infection - a review José Rodrigues Coura; Martha Suárez-Mutis; Simone Ladeia-Andrade PAGE: 229-237 | DOI: S0074-02762006000300001

The genetic diversity of Plasmodium vivax - A Review Wanessa Christina de Souza-Neiras; Luciane Moreno Storti de Melo; Ricardo Luiz Dantas Machado PAGE: 245-254 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007000300002

Urban malaria in the Brazilian Western Amazon Region I. High prevalence of asymptomatic carriers in an urban riverside district is associated with a high level of clinical malaria Mauro Shugiro Tada; Russimeire Paula Marques; Elieth Mesquita; Rosimeire Cristina Dalla Martha; Juan Abel Rodrigues; Joana D'Arc Neves Costa; Rosario Rocha Pepelascov; Tony Hiroshi Katsuragawa; Luiz Hildebrando Pereira-da-Silva PAGE: 263-270 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000012

Man biting rate seasonal variation of malaria vectors in Roraima, Brazil Fábio Saito Monteiro de Barros; Nildimar Alves Honório PAGE: 299-302 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000024

Comparative recognition by human IgG antibodies of recombinant proteins representing three asexual erythrocytic stage vaccine candidates of Plasmodium vivax Mayara B Barbedo; Ricardo Ricci; Maria Carolina S Jimenez; Maristela G Cunha; Syed S Yazdani; Chetan E Chitnis; Mauricio M Rodrigues; Irene S Soares PAGE: 335-340 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000040

An ecoregional classification for the state of Roraima, Brazil. The importance of landscape in malaria biology Maria Goreti Rosa-Freitas; Pantelis Tsouris; A Townsend Peterson; Nildimar Alves Honório; Fábio Saito Monteiro de Barros; Ducinéia Barros de Aguiar; Helen da Costa Gurgel; Mércia Eliane de Arruda; Simão Dias Vasconcelos; José Francisco Luitgards-Moura PAGE: 349-358 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000052

Effect of fosmidomycin on metabolic and transcript profiles of the methylerythritol phosphate pathway in Plasmodium falciparum María B Cassera; Emilio F Merino; Valnice J Peres; Emilia A Kimura; Gerhard Wunderlich; Alejandro M Katzin PAGE: 377-384 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007000300019

Coadaptation and malaria control Carlos Eduardo Tosta PAGE: 385-404 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000042

Merozoite surface protein 2 allelic variation influences the specific antibody response during acute malaria in individuals from a Brazilian endemic area Selma Sallenave-Sales; Clarissa Perez Faria; Mariano Gustavo Zalis; Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro; Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz PAGE: 421-425 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000048

The importance of Anopheles albitarsis E and An. darlingi in human malaria transmission in Boa Vista, state of Roraima, Brazil Marinete Marins Póvoa; Raimundo Tadeu Lessa de Souza; Raimundo Nonato da Luz Lacerda; Edvaldo Santa Rosa; Deocleciano Galiza; James Rodrigues de Souza; Robert A Wirtz; Carl D Schlichting; Jan E Conn PAGE: 163-168 | DOI: S0074-02762006000200008

Molecular markers and genetic diversity of Plasmodium vivax Cristiana Ferreira Alves de Brito; Marcelo Urbano Ferreira PAGE: 12-26 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900003

Analysis of the genetic variability of PvMSP-3? among Plasmodium vivax in Brazilian field isolates Ricardo Souza Ribeiro; Luisa Ladeira; Antonio Mauro Rezende; Cor Jesus Fernandes Fontes; Luzia Helena Carvalho; Cristiana Ferreira Alves de Brito PAGE: 27-33 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900004

Antibodies against the Plasmodium falciparum glutamate-rich protein from naturally exposed individuals living in a Brazilian malaria-endemic area can inhibit in vitro parasite growth Lilian Rose Pratt-Riccio; Cesare Bianco-Junior; Paulo Renato Rivas Totino; Daiana De Souza Perce-Da-Silva; Luciene Aquino Silva; Evelyn Kety Pratt Riccio; Vítor Ennes-Vidal; Ana Gisele Costa Neves-Ferreira; Jonas Perales; Surza Lucia Gonçalves Da Rocha; Fabrício Dias-Da-Silva; Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz; Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro; Joseli De Oliveira-Ferreira; Michael Theisen; Leonardo José De Moura Carvalho; Dalma Maria Banic PAGE: 34-43 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900005

On cytoadhesion of Plasmodium vivax: raison d'être? Fabio TM Costa; Stefanie CP Lopes; Mireia Ferrer; Juliana A Leite; Lorena Martin-Jaular; Maria Bernabeu; Paulo A Nogueira; Maria Paula G Mourão; Carmen Fernandez-Becerra; Marcus VG Lacerda; Hernando del Portillo PAGE: 79-84 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900010

Malaria-related anaemia: a Latin American perspective Juan Pablo Quintero; André Machado Siqueira; Alberto Tobón; Silvia Blair; Alberto Moreno; Myriam Arévalo-Herrera; Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda; Sócrates Herrera Valencia PAGE: 91-104 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900012

The prospect of eliminating malaria transmission in some regions of Brazil Pedro Luiz Tauil PAGE: 105-106 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900013

Predictors of local malaria outbreaks: an approach to the development of an early warning system in Colombia Julio César Mateus; Gabriel Carrasquilla PAGE: 107-113 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900014

Isoprenoid biosynthesis in the erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum Fabiana Morandi Jordão; Emília Akemi Kimura; Alejandro Miguel Katzin PAGE: 134-141 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900018

Chemoresistance of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax parasites in Brazil: consequences on disease morbidity and control Bianca Ervatti Gama; Marcus Vinicius Guimarães Lacerda; Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro; Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz PAGE: 159-166 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900020

Induction and maintenance of protective CD8+ T cells against malaria liver stages: implications for vaccine development Sze-Wah Tse; Andrea J Radtke; Fidel Zavala PAGE: 172-178 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900022

Malaria transmission blocking immunity and sexual stage vaccines for interrupting malaria transmission in Latin America Myriam Arévalo-Herrera ; Yezid Solarte; Catherin Marin; Mariana Santos; Jenniffer Castellanos; John C Beier; Sócrates Herrera Valencia PAGE: 202-211 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900025

Can Wolbachia be used to control malaria? Thomas Walker; Luciano Andrade Moreira PAGE: 212-217 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900026

Thrombocytopenia in malaria: who cares? Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda; Maria Paula Gomes Mourão; Helena Cristina Cardoso Coelho; João Barberino Santos PAGE: 52-63 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900007

Platform for Plasmodium vivax vaccine discovery and development Sócrates Herrera Valencia; Diana Carolina Rodríguez; Diana Lucía Acero; Vanessa Ocampo; Myriam Arévalo-Herrera PAGE: 179-192 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900023

A review of antimalarial plants used in traditional medicine in communities in Portuguese-Speaking countries: Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola Jefferson Rocha de A Silva; Aline de S Ramos; Marta Machado; Dominique F de Moura; Zoraima Neto; Marilene M Canto-Cavalheiro; Paula Figueiredo; Virgilio E do Rosário; Ana Claudia F Amaral; Dinora Lopes PAGE: 142-158 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900019

A new mtDNA COI gene lineage closely related to Anopheles janconnae of the Albitarsis complex in the Caribbean region of Colombia Lina A Gutiérrez; Lina M Orrego; Giovan F Gómez; Andrés López; Shirley Luckhart; Jan E Conn; Margarita M Correa PAGE: 1019-1025 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762010000800011

Expression of non-TLR pattern recognition receptors in the spleen of BALB/c mice infected with Plasmodium yoelii and Plasmodium chabaudi chabaudi AS  Anna Rosanas-Urgell; Lorena Martin-Jaular; Julio Ricarte-Filho; Mireia Ferrer; Susana Kalko; Edna Kimura; Hernando A del Portillo PAGE: 410-415 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000300017

Biomarkers for susceptibility to infection and disease severity in human malaria Bruno Bezerril Andrade; Manoel Barral-Netto PAGE: 70-78 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900009

Use of geoprocessing to define malaria risk areas and evaluation of the vectorial importance of anopheline mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Espírito Santo, Brazil Viviane Coutinho Meneguzzi ; Claudiney Biral dos Santos; Israel de Souza Pinto; Leandro Roberto Feitoza; Hideko Nagatani Feitoza; Aloísio Falqueto PAGE: 567-569 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000400006

Enhancement of the antimalarial efficacy of amodiaquine by chlorpheniramine in vivo Akintunde Sowunmi ; Grace O Gbotosho; Christian T Happi; Ahmed A Adedeji; Olayinka M Bolaji; Fatai A Fehintola; Babasola A Fateye; Ayoade MJ Oduola PAGE: 417-420 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000038

Antimalarial drugs disrupt ion homeostasis in malarial parasites Marcos L Gazarini; Carlos AO Sigolo; Regina P Markus; Andrew P Thomas; Célia RS Garcia PAGE: 329-334 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007000300012

Modification of oxidative status in Plasmodium berghei-infected erythrocytes by E-2-chloro-8-methyl-3-[(4'-methoxy-1'-indanoyl)-2'-methyliden]-quinoline compared to chloroquine Juan Rodrigues; Jaime Charris; José Domínguez; Jorge Ángel; Neira Gamboa PAGE: 865-870 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000600008

Control of urinary schistosomiasis on Zanzibar (Unguja Island): a pilot evaluation of the educational impact of the Juma na Kichocho health booklet within primary schools JR Stothard; P Mook; AF Mgeni; IS Khamis; AN Khamis; D Rollinson PAGE: 119-124 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762006000900019

Clinical spectrum of uncomplicated malaria in semi-immune Amazonians: beyond the " symptomatic " vs " asymptomatic " dichotomy Mônica da Silva-Nunes; Marcelo U Ferreira PAGE: 341-348 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000051

Effects of pyrimethamine-sulphadoxine, chloroquine plus chlorpheniramine, and amodiaquine plus pyrimethamine-sulphadoxine on gametocytes during and after treatment of acute, uncomplicated malaria in children A Sowunmi; AA Adedeji; GO Gbotosho; BA Fateye; TC Happi PAGE: 887-893 | DOI: S0074-02762006000800011

A closer look at multiple-clone Plasmodium vivax infections: detection methods, prevalence and consequences Tatiana Havryliuk-; Marcelo U Ferreira PAGE: 67-73 | DOI: S0074-02762009000100011

Patterns of co-association of C-reactive protein and nitric oxide in malaria in endemic areas of Iran Hossein Nahrevanian; Jafar Gholizadeh; Mahin Farahmand; Mehdi Assmar PAGE: 39-44 | DOI: S0074-02762008000100006

Asymptomatic Plasmodium spp. infection in Tierralta, Colombia Zulma Milena Cucunubá; Ángela Patricia Guerra; Sonia Judith Rahirant; Jorge Alonso Rivera; Liliana Jazmín Cortés; Rubén Santiago Nicholls PAGE: 668-673 | DOI: S0074-02762008000700007

Some features of primary and recrudescent amodiaquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum infections in Nigerian children Akintunde Sowunmi; Sulayman T Balogun; Grace O Gbotosho; Christian T Happi PAGE: 754-759 | DOI: S0074-02762008000800002

Pfcrt haplotypes and the evolutionary history of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum  Gauri Awasthi; Godavarthi Bhogendra Krishna Satya; Aparup Das PAGE: 129-134 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000100018

Why do we need alternative tools to control mosquito-borne diseases in Latin America? Rafael Maciel-de-Freitas; Raquel Aguiar; Rafaela V Bruno; Maria Cristina Guimarães; Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira; Marcos HF Sorgine; Cláudio J Struchiner; Denise Valle; Scott L O'Neill; Luciano A Moreira PAGE: 828-829 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000600021

Cells and mediators of inflammation (C-reactive protein, nitric oxide, platelets and neutrophils) in the acute and convalescent phases of uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum infection Josué da Costa Lima-Junior; Rodrigo Nunes Rodrigues-da-Silva; Virgínia Araújo Pereira; Fábio Luiz Storer; Daiana de Souza Perce-da-Silva; Daniela Leite Fabrino; Fátima Santos; Dalma Maria Banic; Joseli de Oliveira-Ferreira PAGE: 1035-1041 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000800012

Drimanes from Drimys brasiliensis with leishmanicidal and antimalarial activity Vanessa Duarte Claudino; Kesia Caroline da Silva; Valdir Cechinel Filho;Rosendo Augusto Yunes; Franco Delle Monache; Alberto Giménez;Efrain Salamanca; David Gutierrez-Yapu; Angela Malheiros PAGE: 140-144 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108022013002

Apoptosis of non-parasitised red blood cells in Plasmodium yoelii malaria Paulo Renato Rivas Totino, Raquel Alves Pinna, Ana Cecilia Amado Xavier De-Oliveira, Dalma Maria Banic, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108062013003

Development of the BG-Malaria trap as an alternative to human-landing catches for the capture of Anopheles darlingi Renata Antonaci Gama, Ivoneide Maria da Silva, Martin Geier, Álvaro Eduardo Eiras DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108062013013

Submicroscopic malaria parasite carriage: how reproducible are polymerase chain reaction-based methods? Daniela Camargos Costa, Ana Paula Madureira, Lara Cotta Amaral, Bruno Antônio Marinho Sanchez, Luciano Teixeira Gomes, Cor Jésus Fernandes Fontes, Jean Ezequiel Limongi, Cristiana Ferreira Alves de Brito, Luzia Helena Carvalho PAGE: 21-28 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140102

Cross-sectional Study Defines Difference in Malaria Morbidity in Two Yanomami Communities on Amazonian Boundary between Brazil and Venezuela Teodardo José Marcano, Anastácio Morgado, Carlos Eduardo Tosta*, José Rodrigues Coura PAGE: 369-376

Malaria during Pregnancy in a Reference Centre from the Brazilian Amazon: Unexpected Increase in the Frequency of Plasmodium falciparum Infections Flor Ernestina Martínez-Espinosa, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Wilson Duarte Alecrim PAGE: 19-21

Variability and genetic differentiation among Anopheles (Ano.) intermedius Chagas, 1908 and Anopheles (Ano.) mattogrossensis Lutz & Neiva, 1911 (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Brazilian Amazon Joselita Maria Mendes dos Santos, Gloria Alicia Diaz Rodriguez*, Juracy de Freitas Maia, Wanderli Pedro Tadei PAGE: 531-537

Identification of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis complex species (Diptera: Culicidae) using rDNA internal transcribed spacer 2-based polymerase chain reaction primes Cong Li, Richard C Wilkerson PAGE: 495-500

Effects of antifolates _ co-trimoxazole and pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine _ on gametocytes in children with acute, symptomatic, uncomplicated, Plasmodium falciparum malaria A Sowunmi, BA Fateye, AA Adedeji, FA Fehintola, AE Bamgboye, CP Babalola*, TC Happi, GO Gbotosho PAGE: 451-455

Genetic polymorphism of the serine rich antigen N-terminal region in Plasmodium falciparum field isolates from Brazil Evelyn Kety Pratt Riccio, Mariano Gustavo Zalis,Helena Cristina Balthazar Guedes, Dalma Maria Banic, José Maria de Souza, Wilson Alecrim, Daniel Camus,Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro,Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz PAGE: 47-49

Genetics of chloroquine-resistant malaria: a haplotypic view Gauri Awasthi, Aparup Das PAGE: 947-961 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130274

Anthropophilic biting behaviour of Anopheles (Kerteszia) neivai Howard, Dyar & Knab associated with Fishermen’s activities in a malaria-endemic area in the Colombian Pacific Jesús Eduardo Escovar, Ranulfo González, Martha Lucía Quiñones PAGE: 1057-1064 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130256

Detection of Telomerase Activity in Plasmodium falciparum Using a Nonradioactive Method Claudia C Rubiano, Moises Wasserman PAGE: 693-695

Severe Anemia Affects Both Splenectomized and Non-splenectomized Plasmodium falciparum-infected Aotus infulatus Monkeys Leonardo J de Moura Carvalho, Francisco Acácio Alves, Salma Gomes de Oliveira, Rodrigo del Rio do Valle, Andréa A Morais Fernandes, José A Pereira Carneiro Muniz, Claudio T Daniel-Ribeiro PAGE: 679-686

The Association of Genetic Markers and Malaria Infection in the Brazilian Western Amazonian Region B Beiguelman, FP Alves, MM Moura, V Engracia, ACS Nunes, MIO Heckmann, RGM Ferreira, LH Pereira da Silva, EP Camargo, H Krieger PAGE: 455-460

Morphometric Discrimination of Females of Five Species of Anopheles of the Subgenus Nyssorhynchus from Southern and Northwest Colombia David A Calle L, Martha L Quiñones, Holmes F Erazo, Nicolás Jaramillo O PAGE: 1191-1195

Effects of Chloroquine and Sulfadoxine/Pyrimethamine on Gametocytes in Patients with Uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in Colombia Lyda Osorio*, Beatriz E Ferro, Carmen M Castillo PAGE: 1221-1223

Performance of OptiMAL® in the Diagnosis of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum Infections in a Malaria Referral Center in Colombia Beatriz E Ferro, Iveth J González, Fanny de Carvajal*, Gloria I Palma*, Nancy G Saravia PAGE: 731-735

Assessment of Therapeutic Response of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum to Chloroquine in a Malaria Transmission Free Area in Colombia Carmen Manuela Castillo, Lyda Elena Osorio, Gloria Inés Palma PAGE: 559-562

Biting Indices, Host-seeking Activity and Natural Infection Rates of Anopheline Species in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil from 1996 to 1998 Adenildo da Silva-Vasconcelos, Márcio Yukió Neves Kató, Eliana Neves Mourão, Raimundo Tadeu Lessa de Souza, Raimundo Nonato da Luz Lacerda, Alexander Sibajev, Pantelis Tsouris, Marinete Marins Póvoa, Hooman Momen,Maria Goreti Rosa-Freitas PAGE: 151-161

A Rural Community in a Brazilian Western Amazonian Region: Some Demographic and Epidemiological Patterns LMA Camargo, MM Moura, V Engracia, RC Pagotto, SA Basano,LH Pereira da Silva, EP Camargo, B Beiguelman, H Krieger PAGE: 193-195

Anthropophilic Anopheles species composition and malaria in Tierradentro, Córdoba, Colombia David Joachim Schiemann, Martha Lucía Quiñones Pinzón, Thomas Hankeln PAGE: 384-387 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130483

Diagnostic Performance Characteristics of Rapid Dipstick Test for Plasmodium vivax Malaria Gonul Aslan, Mustafa Ulukanligil, Adnan Seyrek, Ozcan Erel* PAGE: 683-686

Genome Comparison of Progressively Drug Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Lines Derived from Drug Sensitive Clone Ravi Toteja, Lathika Nair, VK Bhasin PAGE: 427-433

Protective CD8+ T Cell Responses against the Pre-erythrocytic Stages of Malaria Parasites: an Overview J Oliveira-Ferreira, CT Daniel-Ribeiro PAGE: 221-227

Mutations in Plasmodium falciparum Dihydrofolate Reductase and Dihydropteroate Synthase of Isolates from the Amazon Region of Brazil KF Vasconcelos, CV Plowe, CJ Fontes, D Kyle, DF Wirth,LH Pereira da Silva, MG Zalis PAGE: 721-728

Isolation and Identification of Actin-binding Proteins in Plasmodium falciparum by Affinity Chromatography Claudia Forero, Moisés Wasserman PAGE: 329-337

Aotus infulatus Monkey is Susceptible to Plasmodium falciparum Infection and May Constitute an Alternative Experimental Model for Malaria Leonardo JM Carvalho, Salma G Oliveira, Francisco A Alves,Maria CO Brígido, José APC Muniz, Claudio T Daniel-Ribeiro PAGE: 363-365

Malaria Control in an Agro-industrial Settlement of Rondônia (Western Amazon Region, Brazil) Juan Miguel Villalobos Salcedo, Erney Plessmann Camargo, Henrique Krieger, Luiz H Pereira da Silva, Luis Marcelo Aranha Camargo PAGE: 139-145

Is there a Role for Autoimmunity in Immune Protection against Malaria? Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro PAGE: 199-207

Plasmodium falciparum Malaria: Rosettes are Disrupted by Quinine, Artemisinin, Mefloquine, Primaquine, Pyrimethamine, Chloroquine and Proguanil JP Dean Goldring, Thanugarani Padayachee, Imraan Ismail PAGE: 667-674

Increase of a Calcium Independent Transglutaminase Activity in the Erythrocyte during the Infection with Plasmodium falciparum Moisés Wasserman, Ana Mercedes Márquez, Mauricio Urquiza, Patricia Jiménez PAGE: 95-100

Allelic Diversity at the Merozoite Surface Protein-1 (MSP-1) Locus in Natural Plasmodium falciparum Populations: a Brief Overview Marcelo U Ferreira, Osamu Kaneko, Masatsugu Kimura, Qing Liu, Fumihiko Kawamoto, Kazuyuki Tanabe PAGE: 631-638

Evaluation of DNA Recombinant Methodologies for the Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum and their Comparison with the Microscopy Assay L Urdaneta, P Guevara, JL Ramirez PAGE: 639-646

Studies on the Bacillus sphaericus Larvicidal Activity against Malarial Vector Species in Amazonia Iléa Brandão Rodrigues, Waderli Pedro Tadei, José Manoel C Silva Dias PAGE: 441-444

The Biology of Malarial Parasite in the Mosquito - A Review Amauri Braga Simonetti PAGE: 519-541

Man-biting Activity of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albimanus and An. (Kerteszia) neivai (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Pacific Lowlands of Colombia Yezid Solarte, Camilo Hurtado, Ranulfo Gonzalez, Bruce Alexander PAGE: 141-146

The Epidemiology of Malaria in Prábis, Guinea-Bissau Aldina Gonçalves, Paulo Ferrinho, Francisco Dias PAGE: 11-17

Diagnosis of Malaria by Acridine Orange Fluorescent Microscopy in an Endemic Area of Venezuela Irene Bosch, Carmen Bracho, Hilda A Pérez PAGE: 83-86

Asymptomatic infection with Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in the Brazilian Amazon Basin: to treat or not to treat?  Mauro Shugiro Tada; Ricardo de Godoi Mattos Ferreira; Tony Hiroshi Katsuragawa; Rosimeire Cristina Dalla Martha; Joana D'Arc Neves Costa; Letusa Albrecht; Gerhard Wunderlich; Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva, PAGE: 621-629 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000500008

Cross-reactive anti-PfCLAG9 antibodies in the sera of asymptomatic parasite carriers of Plasmodium vivax Joana D'Arc Neves Costa; Fernando Berton Zanchi; Francisco Lurdevanhe da Silva Rodrigues; Eduardo Rezende Honda; Tony Hiroschi Katsuragawa; Dhélio Batista Pereira; Roger Lafontaine Mesquita Taborda; Mauro Shugiro Tada; Ricardo de Godoi Mattos Ferreira; Luiz Hildebrando Pereira-da-Silva PAGE: 98-105 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762013000100016

A decade of malaria during pregnancy in Brazil: what has been done concerning prevention and management Paola Marchesini, Fabio Trindade Maranhão Costa, Claudio Romero Farias Marinho PAGE: 706-708 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140047

Slow clearance of Plasmodium vivax with chloroquine amongst children younger than six months of age in the Brazilian Amazon André M Siqueira, Lucas I Coutinho, Rafael L Gurgel, Willian CS Su, Luiz M Carvalho, Silvana G Benzecry, Aline CC Alencar , Márcia AA Alexandre, Maria Graças C Alecrim, Marcus VG Lacerda PAGE: 540-545 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130068

Getting ready for malaria elimination: a check list of critical issues to consider Matiana González-Silva, Quique Bassat, Pedro L Alonso PAGE: 517-521 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140205

Influence of age on the haemoglobin concentration of malaria-infected patients in a reference centre in the Brazilian Amazon Andre M Siqueira, Janieldo A Cavalcante, Shelia Vítor-Silva, Roberto C Reyes-Lecca, Aline C Alencar, Wuelton M Monteiro, Márcia AA Alexandre, Maria Paula G Mourão, Caterina Guinovart, Quique Bassat, Maria das Graças C Alecrim, Marcus VG Lacerda PAGE: 569-576 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140132

Is there an efficient trap or collection method for sampling Anopheles darlingi and other malaria vectors that can describe the essential parameters affecting transmission dynamics as effectively as human landing catches? - A Review José Bento Pereira Lima, Maria Goreti Rosa-Freitas, Cynara Melo Rodovalho, Fátima Santos, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira PAGE: 685-705 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140134

Malaria in Brazil: what happens outside the Amazonian endemic region Anielle de Pina-Costa, Patrícia Brasil, Sílvia Maria Di Santi, Mariana Pereira de Araujo, Martha Cecilia Suárez-Mutis, Ana Carolina Faria e Silva Santelli, Joseli Oliveira-Ferreira, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro PAGE: 618-633 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140228

Plasmodium vivax malaria elimination: should innovative ideas from the past be revisited? Fernando Fonseca Val, Vanderson Souza Sampaio, Maria Belén Cassera, Raquel Tapajós Andrade, Pedro Luiz Tauil, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro, Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda PAGE: 522-524 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140240

The remarkable journey of adaptation of the Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite to New World anopheline mosquitoes Alvaro Molina-Cruz, Carolina Barillas-Mury PAGE: 662-667 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130553

Malaria in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an Atlantic Forest area: an assessment using the health surveillance service Renata Bortolasse Miguel, Paulo Cesar Peiter, Hermano de Albuquerque, José Rodrigues Coura, Patrícia Ganzenmüller Moza, Anielle de Pina Costa, Patricia Brasil, Martha Cecília Suárez-Mutis PAGE: 634-640 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130558

The Duffy binding protein as a key target for a Plasmodium vivax vaccine: lessons from the Brazilian Amazon Taís Nóbrega de Sousa, Flora Satiko Kano, Cristiana Ferreira Alves de Brito, Luzia Helena Carvalho PAGE: 608-617 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130592

The Plasmodium bottleneck: malaria parasite losses in the mosquito vector Ryan C Smith, Joel Vega-Rodríguez, Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena PAGE: 644-661 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130597

The Origin and Dispersion of Human Parasitic Diseases in the Old World (Africa, Europe and Madagascar) Jean-Pierre Nozais PAGE: 13-19

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: a New Century of Malaria Research Eleanor M Riley PAGE: 25-32

Overview of Some Biomedical Research Projects in Tropical Medicine Conducted at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas Egidio Romano, Italo Cesari, Ananias Escalante, Ferdinando Liprandi, Jose Antonio O'Daly, Hilda Perez, Howard Takiff PAGE: 33-40

Natural Immunoglobulins (Contribution to a Debate on Biomedical Education) Nelson M Vaz PAGE: 59-62

Anopheles species composition explains differences in Plasmodium transmission in La Guajira, northern Colombia Manuela Herrera-Varela, Lorena I Orjuela, Cilia Peñalver, Jan E Conn, Martha L Quiñones PAGE: 952-956 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140126

The behaviour of mosquitoes in relation to humans under holed bednets: the evidence from experimental huts Seth R Irish PAGE: 905-911 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140159

Structure-based drug design studies of the interactions of ent-kaurane diterpenes derived from Wedelia paludosa with the Plasmodium falciparum sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase PfATP6 Daniel Silqueira Martins Guimarães, Amanda Luisa da Fonseca, Ronan Batista,Moacyr Comar Junior, Alaíde Braga de Oliveira, Alex Gutterres Taranto, Fernando de Pilla Varotti PAGE: 255-258 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760140415

Prevalência de Anofelinos (Diptera: Culicidae) no Crepúsculo Vespertino em Áreas da Usina Hidrelétrica de Itaipu, no Município de Guaíra, Estado do Paraná, Brasil Anthony Érico Guimarães, Rubens Pinto de Mello, Catarina Macedo Lopes, Jeronimo Alencar, Carla Gentile PAGE: 745-754

Egg Structures of Anopheles fluminensis and Anopheles shannoni LP Lounibos , D Duzak, JR Linley, R Lourenço-de-Oliveira PAGE: 221-232

A historical perspective on malaria control in Brazil Sean Michael Griffing, Pedro Luiz Tauil, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, Luciana Silva-Flannery PAGE: 701-718 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150041

Malaria in gold-mining areas in Colombia Angélica Castellanos, Pablo Chaparro-Narváez, Cristhian David Morales-Plaza, Alberto Alzate, Julio Padilla, Myriam Arévalo, Sócrates Herrera PAGE: 59-66 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150382

Highly active ozonides selected against drug resistant malaria Lis Lobo, Bruno de Sousa, Lília Cabral, Maria LS Cristiano, Fátima Nogueira PAGE: 450-453 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160077

Mitochondrial genome sequence diversity of Indian Plasmodium falciparum isolates Suchi Tyagi, Veena Pande, Aparup Das PAGE: 494-498 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130531

High malaria transmission in a forested malaria focus in French Guiana: How can exophagic Anopheles darlingi thwart vector control and prevention measures? Samuel B Vezenegho, Antoine Adde, Vincent Pommier de Santi, Jean Issaly, Romuald Carinci, Pascal Gaborit, Isabelle Dusfour, Romain Girod, Sébastien Briolant PAGE: 561-569 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160150

Anopheles fauna of coastal Cayenne, French Guiana: modelling and mapping of species presence using remotely sensed land cover data Antoine Adde, Isabelle Dusfour, Emmanuel Roux, Romain Girod, Sébastien Briolant PAGE: 750-756 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160272

Microbial control of arthropod-borne disease Miguel A Saldaña, Shivanand Hegde, Grant L Hughes PAGE: 81-93 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160373

Antimycobacterial and antimalarial activities of endophytic fungi associated with the ancient and narrowly endemic neotropical plant Vellozia gigantea from Brazil Mariana C Ferreira, Charles L Cantrell, David E Wedge, Vívian N Gonçalves, Melissa R Jacob, Shabana Khan, Carlos A Rosa, Luiz H Rosa DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170144

The impact of imported malaria by gold miners in Roraima: characterizing the spatial dynamics of autochthonous and imported malaria in an urban region of Boa Vista Jaime Louzada, Nathália Coelho Vargas de Almeida, Joao Luiz Pereira de Araujo, Júlio Silva, Thiago M Carvalho,Ananias A Escalante, Joseli Oliveira-Ferreira DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760200043

Urban malaria transmission in a non-endemic area in the Andean region of Colombia Pablo E Chaparro, Karen Molina, Alberto Alzate, Julio Padilla, Myriam Arévalo-Herrera, Sócrates Herrera PAGE: 797-804 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170113

Anophelines species and the receptivity and vulnerability to malaria transmission in the Pantanal wetlands, Central Brazil Mariana Marinho-e-Silva, Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Maria Goreti Rosa-Freitas, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Teresa Fernandes Silva-do-Nascimento PAGE: 87-95 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170175

Ecological characterisation and infection of Anophelines (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Atlantic Forest in the southeast of Brazil over a 10 year period: has the behaviour of the autochthonous malaria vector changed? Julyana Cerqueira Buery, Helder Ricas Rezende, Licia Natal, Leonardo Santana da Silva, Regiane Maria Tironi de Menezes, Blima Fux, Rosely dos Santos Malafronte, Aloisio Falqueto, Crispim Cerutti Junior PAGE: 111-118 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170225

Synthesis and molecular modelling studies of pyrimidinones and pyrrolo[3,4-d]-pyrimidinodiones as new antiplasmodial compounds Kamilla Rodrigues Rogerio, Leonardo J M Carvalho, Luiza Helena Pinto Domingues, Bruno Junior Neves, José Teófilo Moreira Filho, Rosane Nora Castro Cesare Bianco Júnior, Claudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Carolina Horta Andrade, Cedric Stephan Graebin DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170452

A method for estimating the deforestation timeline in rural settlements in a scenario of malaria transmission in frontier expansion in the Amazon Region Roberto Cardoso Ilacqua, Leonardo Suveges Moreira Chaves, Eduardo Sterlino Bergo, Jan E Conn, Maria Anice Mubeb Sallum, Gabriel Zorello Laporta DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170522

Commercial drugs containing flavonoids are active in mice with malaria and in vitro against chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum Julia Penna-Coutinho, Anna CC Aguiar, Antoniana Ursine Krettli DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180279

Analytical validation of real-time quantitative PCR assays for optimum diagnosis of vivax malaria Natália Ketrin Almeida-de-Oliveira, Otacílio C Moreira, Aline Rosa de Lavigne, Natália Ketrin Almeida-de-Oliveira, Otacílio C Moreira, Aline Rosa de Lavigne, Leila Mendonça-Lima, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180350

Lack of quadruple and quintuple mutant alleles associated with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance in Plasmodium vivax isolates from Brazilian endemic areas Larissa Rodrigues Gomes, Aline Lavigne, Patrícia Brasil, Cassio Leonel Peterka, Didier Ménard, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180425

Imported malaria in Rio de Janeiro state between 2007 and 2015: an epidemiologic approach Hermano Gomes Albuquerque, Paulo Cesar Peiter, Luciano Medeiros Toledo, Paulo Chagastelles Sabroza, Rafael dos Santos Pereira, Jefferson Pereira Caldas, Jussara Rafael Angelo, CristinaGiordano Dias, Martha Cecília Suárez-Mutis DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190064

Chloroquine and mefloquine resistance profiles are not related to the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) VK210 subtypes in field isolates of Plasmodium vivax from Manaus, Brazilian Amazon Lilian Rose Pratt-Riccio, Bárbara de Oliveira Baptista, Vanessa Rodrigues Torres, Cesare Bianco-Junior, Daiana de Souza Perce-Da-Silva, Evelyn Kety Pratt Riccio, Josué da Costa Lima-Junior, Paulo Renato Rivas Totino, Gustavo Capatti Cassiano, Luciane Moreno Storti-Melo, Ricardo Luiz Dantas Machado, Joseli de Oliveira-Ferreira, Dalma Maria Banic, Leonardo José de Moura Carvalho, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190054

Plasmodium infection and its association with biochemical and haematological parameters in free-living Alouatta guariba clamitans (Cabrera, 1940) (Primates: Atelidae) in Southern Brazil Ana Júlia Dutra Nunes, Denise Anete Madureira de Alvarenga, Julio Cesar de Souza Junior, Amanda Rezende Peruchi, Gustavo Henrique Pereira Gonçalves, Zelinda Maria Braga Hirano, Cristiana Ferreira Alves de Brito, Marta Jussara Cremer DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190210

Flight tone characterization of the South American malaria vector Anopheles darlingi (Diptera: Culicidae) Jose Pablo Montoya, Hoover Pantoja-Sánchez, Sebastian Gomez, Frank William Avila, Catalina Alfonso-Parra DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760200497

Reemergence of human malaria in Atlantic Forest of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Alessandra Bittencourt de Lemos, Onilda Santos da Silva, Sandra Cristina Deboni, Valdir Schallemberger, Edmilson dos Santos, Marco Antônio Barreto de Almeida, Anne Andrea Dockhorn Marth, Sidnei Silva, Aline Rosa de Lavigne Mello, Teresa Fernandes Silva-do-Nascimento, Maria de Fatima Ferreira-da-Cruz, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Jáder da Cruz Cardoso DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760210064

Mechanism of action of glycyrrhizin against Plasmodium falciparum Maria de Nazaré Correia Soeiro, Gérard Vergoten, Christian Bailly DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760210084

CCR6 expression reduces mouse survival upon malarial challenge with Plasmodium berghei NK65 strain Eduardo Lani Volpe da Silveira, Urvashi Rai, Vivian Bonezi, Carlos Rodrigo Zárate-Bladés, Carla Claser DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760210287

Electrochemical immunosensor for detection of Plasmodium vivax lactate dehydrogenase Ariamna María Dip Gandarilla, Juliane Correa Glória, Yonny Romaguera Barcelay, Luís André Morais Mariuba, Walter Ricardo Brito DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760220085

Clinically silent Plasmodium vivax infections in native Amazonians of northwestern Brazil: acquired immunity or low parasite virulence? Luiza Barbosa Barros, Priscila Rodrigues Calil, Priscila Thihara Rodrigues, Juliana Tonini, Pablo Secato Fontoura, Priscila Moraes Sato, Marly Augusto Cardoso, Marina Werneck de Almeida Avellar Russo, Carlos Eduardo Cavasini, Anderson Rocha de Jesus Fernandes, Marcelo Urbano Ferreira DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760220175

Characterization of larval habitats of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) darlingi and associated species in malaria areas in western Brazilian Amazon Fátima dos Santos, Mingrui Xu, Lelys Bravo de Guenni, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Yasmin Rubio-Palis DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760240116

Molecular test for screening malaria-infected blood donors to maximise recipient safety in Acre State, a Brazilian endemic area Thereza Cristina Picado Pinheiro, Sabrina Silva Santos, Fernanda Moura El Bayet Simião, Aline Rosa de Lavigne Mello, Cinara de Barros Pimentel, Leonardo Assad Lomonaco, Patrícia Alvarez, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, Rosalina Jorge Koifman, Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760240109

Distribution of Anophelinae (Diptera: Culicidae) and challenges for malaria elimination in Brazil Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Thiago Salomão de Azevedo, Jan Evelyn Conn, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760240247