graduate at Medicina from Universidade de São Paulo (1988), master's at Parasitologia from Universidade de São Paulo (1993) and ph.d. at Parasitologia from Universidade de São Paulo (1997). Has experience in Parasitology, focusing on Human Parasite Protozoology, acting on the following subjects: malaria, plasmodium falciparum, epidemiologia, diversidade antigenica and genetica de populacoes. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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With 143,910 laboratory-confirmed cases and 41 malaria-related deaths in 2014, Brazil has now the lowest malaria burden in 35 years, with transmission virtually limited to the Amazon Basin. Accordingly, the Ministry of Health of Brazil has launched, in November 2015, the Malaria Elimination Plan, with the short-term goal of interrupting Plasmodium falciparum transmission countrywide over …
With 143,910 laboratory-confirmed cases and 41 malaria-related deaths in 2014, Brazil has now the lowest malaria burden in 35 years, with transmission virtually limited to the Amazon Basin. Accordingly, the Ministry of Health of Brazil has launched, in November 2015, the Malaria Elimination Plan, with the short-term goal of interrupting Plasmodium falciparum transmission countrywide over …
With 143,910 laboratory-confirmed cases and 41 malaria-related deaths in 2014, Brazil has now the lowest malaria burden in 35 years, with transmission virtually limited to the Amazon Basin. Accordingly, the Ministry of Health of Brazil has launched, in November 2015, the Malaria Elimination Plan, with the short-term goal of interrupting Plasmodium falciparum transmission countrywide over …
Drug resistance has been for more than a century the hallmark of Plasmodium falciparum. This capacity has driven its expansion worldwide, in particular during the long period of established chloroquine (CQ) resistance. P. vivax is the other species well established to be capable of evasion from antimalarial drug action. P. vivax drug resistance has been initially described against anti-fo…
Despite the major recent progress towards malaria elimination in Latin America and the Caribbean, focal transmission persists mostly across the Amazon Basin and the Pacific and Atlantic Coast of Colombia and Central America, where Plasmodium vivax accounts for nearly 80% if the cases. One distinctive feature of P. vivax associated with its increased resilience is the ability to stay in th…
SARS-CoV-2 has now spread globally and poses a major challenge for low- and middle-income countries, where local health infrastructure can be quickly overwhelmed. This proposal builds upon ongoing, FAPESP-supported field research to address the microepidemiology and control of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Mâncio Lima, an urban community in the Amazon. The overarching goal is translating field-…
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The Americas were the last continent to be settled by modern humans, approximately 15,000 years ago, but human malaria parasites - Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, and P. malariae - appear to have arrived much later. Most available evidence suggests that malaria was introduced in the Americas after the European colonization - by settlers from Portugal and Spain, where malaria was endemic …
Brazil recorded 193 thousand cases of Malaria in 2017, an increase of 51% over the previous year. More than 99% of Malaria cases in the country are acquired in the Amazon Basin. The Alto Juruá Valley, with about 120.000 inhabitants, concentrates more than 40% of all P. falciparum infections diagnosed in Brazil and almost 20% of all cases, independently of the species. One of the possible …
With 143,910 laboratory-confirmed cases and 41 malaria-related deaths in 2014, Brazil has now the lowest malaria burden in 35 years, with transmission virtually limited to the Amazon Basin. Accordingly, the Ministry of Health of Brazil has launched, in November 2015, the Malaria Elimination Plan, with the short-term goal of interrupting Plasmodium falciparum transmission countrywide over …
SARS-CoV-2 has now spread globally and poses a major challenge for low- and middle-income countries, where local health infrastructure can be quickly overwhelmed. This proposal builds upon ongoing, FAPESP-supported field research to address the microepidemiology and control of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Mâncio Lima, an urban community in the Amazon. The overarching goal is translating field-…
P. vivax challenges Malaria control, surpasses P. falciparum distribution and subjects 2,5 billion people to the risk of being infected. Naturally acquired immunity, observed on individuals exposed to several Malaria episodes, does not prevents infection but limits parasitaemia, preventing it´s escalation and the manifestation of symptoms. Clinical immunity to Malaria in P. falciparum end…
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This is a proposal for a 12-month research internship at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, under the supervision of Dr. Marcia Caldas de Castro. The main aim is obtaining further training in statistical and geospatial methods for data analysis to test whether the periodic application of an environmentally safe biolarvicide (VectoMax FG, 20 kg/ha) in fish farming ponds can re…
This is a proposal for a twelve-month internship at the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, under the supervision of Prof. Duraisingh, who is an international expert in the area of investigation of the biology of the blood stages of Plasmodium. The central objective of this stage will be to investigate the biological activity of a…
This a proposal for a seven month period internship at the Department of Parasitology in Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) under the supervision of Dr. Maria Yazdanbakhsh, who exercises leadership and recognized international excellence in immunology of filariasis. The main objective of this short-term research project is analyze field-collected peripheral blood mononuclear cell sam…
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