As endemias rurais na Folha SA.22 Belém, do projeto RADAM

Aragão, Mario B.

doi:10.1590/s0102-311x1987000400008

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“…It has been speculated that the Biomphalaria snails could spread to non-flooded areas, after deforestation (Aragão, 1987) but this has not been observed so far in this region. Although already observed colonizing spillways of dams in Africa (Grosse, 1993), snail hosts of S. mansoni have not been found in these structures in dams built in Amazonia.…”

Section: Schistosomiasismentioning

confidence: 87%

Environmental change and the dynamics of parasitic diseases in the Amazon

Confalonieri

Margonari

Quintão³

2014

Acta Tropica

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The Amazonian environment is changing rapidly, due to deforestation, in the short term, and, climatic change is projected to alter its forest cover, in the next few decades. These modifications to the, environment have been altering the dynamics of infectious diseases which have natural foci in the, Amazonian biome, especially in its forest. Current land use practices which are changing the, epidemiological profile of the parasitic diseases in the region are road building; logging; mining; expansion of agriculture and cattle ranching and the building of large dams. Malaria and the cutaneous, leishmaniasis are the diseases best known for their rapid changes in response to environmental, modifications. Others such as soil-transmitted helminthiases, filarial infections and toxoplasmosis, which have part of their developmental cycles in the biophysical environment, are also expected to, change rapidly. An interdisciplinary approach and an integrated, international surveillance are needed, to manage the environmentally-driven changes in the Amazonian parasitic diseases in the near future.

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Section: Schistosomiasismentioning

confidence: 87%