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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduate in Biological Sciences from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (1989), Graduate at Licenciatura Ciencias Biologicas from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (1988), master's at Parasitology from Universidade de São Paulo (1995) and ph.d. at Parasitology from Universidade de São Paulo (2000). Has experience in Collective Health, focusing on Collective Health, acting on the following subjects: malaria, anopheles oswaldoi, second internal transcribed spacer, plasmodium vivax and polymorphism. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Bromeliads provide a unique habitat for many insect species, including immature forms of mosquitoes. This study investigates the effect of abiotic factors, specifically temperature, rainfall, water volume, and physicochemical parameters, on the occurrence and abundance of mosquitoes developing in bromeliads within the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Larval samples and abiotic parameters were c…
The most recent outbreak of sylvatic yellow fever (YF) has caused a significant number of human cases and epizootics in non-human primates (NHP) in the Atlantic Forest region of southeastern Brazil, including notifications in populated areas, before considered free of the disease. In these areas, malaria plasmodia also circulate between PNH and humans and, like the YF virus, are transmitt…
The Yellow Fever (YF) in Brazil and in other South countries was basically restricted to the wild cycle, being mainly carried by mosquitoes of the genera Haemagogus and Sabethes. Epizootic outbreaks of this disease in non-human primates have been recorded with some periodicity, which can vary from five to ten years, preceding the emergence of human cases in surrounding rural areas. In the…
Microsatellite loci specifically designed and optimized for secondary vectors and neglected species of mosquitoes are lacking. Cross-species transferability of microsatellite loci between close taxa have been used as a reliable option, being successfully done for Aedes taeniorhynchus, Triatoma sordida, and Aedes fluviatilis. Nonetheless, prior to the utilization of transferred microsatell…
The continuing worldwide increase in urbanization can potentially have a major impact on the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases, as anthropogenic changes to the environment are known to favor a few species of mosquitoesthat can thrive in urban environments. Culex quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae) is found extensively in urban habitats, where it lives in degraded, polluted areas…
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The fragments of the Atlantic Forest in the southeast of the state of São Paulo are home to several species of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) that have the competence and vector capacity to transmit various arboviruses and keep them circulating in nature through urban and wild cycles. The Sabethini tribe is important for Public Health because it includes species involved in the transmiss…
Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the tribe Sabethini are recognized for the involvement of some species of the genus Sabethes in the transmission of the Yellow Fever virus in the wild cycle. However, species belonging to another genus belonging to this tribe, Wyeomyia Theobald, 1901, the largest of this tribe in number of representatives among the Neotropical Culicidae, have been little…
The genus Toxorhynchites Theobald 1901 is a peculiar group of mosquitoes. They are predators in the aquatic phase and do not engage in hematophagy during the adult phase. Species of this group share many similarities, making it difficult to organize taxonomically, partly due to the limited studies in this regard. Although not hematophagous, Toxorhynchites attract the interest of public he…
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The Yellow Fever is an infection disease, caused by Haemagogus and Sabethes mosquitoes genus. Although, studies that seek to individually investigate taxonomic and epidemiological aspects of the Sabethes subgenus are scarce, despite their assoaciation with non-human primates (NHP), the main Yellow Fever Virus (YFV) reservoirs. Efforts of this magnitude are important because, in addition t…
Triatomines are vectors of the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease, which has a wide distribution in the Neotropical region. In Chile, there are four species of vectors for this zoonosis, namely Mepraia gajardoi, M. spinolai, M. parapatrica and Triatoma infestans. In addition to the vectorial importance in the transmission of Chagas disease, triatomines ar…
The current sylvatic yellow fever outbreak in southeastern Brazil has caused a significant number of deaths in humans and non-human primates, including notifications in areas previously considered free of the disease, such as the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The development of models to simulate and predict the transmission and dispersal dynamics of the yellow fever virus may be an a…
(Only some records are available in English at this moment)
The triatomines are vectors of the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, etiologic agent of Chagas disease, which are widely distributed mainly in the Americas. In Chile, there are four species of vectors of this disease, namely, Mepraia gajardoi, M. spinolai, M. parapatrica and Triatoma infestans. In addition to the vector importance in the transmission of Chagas disease, triatomines are biologic…
Since 2014, Brazil has experienced the largest sylvatic yellow fever outbreak ever recorded in the country, with a high number of human cases and epizootics in non-human primates. The yellow fever vírus (YFV) has expanded from its endemic area in the Amazon basin to Brazilian Atlantic Coast, spreading through highly fragmented landscapes. This research project proposes modeling the transm…