Abstract
The situation of autochthonous malaria in areas covered by Atlantic Forest involves mildly symptomatic human cases, with the presence of simian plasmodia similar to Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae and the presence of Anopheles ; being the Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii species the only incriminated as vector in such epidemiologic situation . Recent, researches in the area of autoch…