La transmisión de la malaria en la Amazonía Peruana es causada principalmente por Plasmodium vivax y transmitida por Nyssorhynchus (previamente Anopheles) darlingi. La ecología larval de esta especie y su relación con la abundancia y distribución de adultos no esta bien establecida, por la tanto, el objetivo de este estudio es identificar y caracterizar los criaderos de Anofelinos y determinar su abundancia, diversidad e infección natural en comunidades a lo largo de dos cuencas hidrográficas en el distrito Mazan-Loreto. Para esto se realizó un estudio longitudinal durante el 2018 cubriendo la estación lluviosa y seca (2 muestreos por estación) en 3 comunidades del río Napo (API<10) y 3 del río Mazan (API>10). Mediante el uso de drones se identificaron los criaderos alrededor de las comunidades (radio 500m). Se realizaron capturas larvales y mediciones de factores biológicos...

Malaria remains endemic in 17 countries in the Americas, where 723,000 cases were reported in 2019. The majority (>90%) of the regional malaria burden is found within the Amazon Basin, which includes nine countries and territories in South America. Locally generated evidence is critical to provide information to public health decision makers upon which the design of efficient and regionally directed malaria control and elimination programs can be built. Plasmodium vivax is the predominant malaria parasite in the Amazon Basin. This parasite species appears to be more resilient to malaria control strategies worldwide. Asymptomatic Plasmodiuminfections constitute a potentially infectious reservoir that is typically missed by routine microscopy-based surveillance and often remains untreated. The primary Amazonian malaria vector, Nyssorhynchus (formerly Anopheles) darlingi, has changed its be...

This work was supported by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Tecnologica (grant number 008-2014-FONDECYT); the Academie de Recherche et d'Enseignement Superieur-Commission de la Cooperation au Developpement of Belgium (grant number ARES-CCD, PRD-Peru 2014-2019 to N. S., A. L. C., and A. R. A.); World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (grant number 201460655 to D. G.); and National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (grant numbers U19AI089681 to J. M. V. and R01AI110112 to J. E. C.). A. R. A. is a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS, Belgium).