MALARIA ACQUIRED DURING ENTOMOLOGICAL RES EARCH UNDERTAKEN ON THE COASTAL RANGE OF SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL

A focus of malaria was discovered at the beginning of 1993, in the Coa stal Range State Park, in the Atlantic Forest area of the State of S. Paulo, Brazil. The entomological research carried out there caused mal aria infection by Plasmodium vivax in three workers of the Endemic Res earch Control Superintendancy (Superintendencia de Controle de Endemia s - SUCEN), of the State Health Secretariat. It is worth emphasizing t hat transmission occurred in an area which had been presenting low lev els of incidence of the disease; also, the capturers who were undertak ing their entomological activities in the area were exposed for an ext remely short period of time in one case for only three hours.