Environmental change and the dynamics of parasitic diseases in the Amazon
| Autor: | Ana Flávia Quintão, Carina Margonari, Ulisses Confalonieri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Land use
Environmental change Ecology Amazon rainforest Agroforestry Climate Change Veterinary (miscellaneous) Amazonian Logging Biome Climate change Environment South America Infectious Diseases Geography Deforestation Insect Science parasitic diseases Parasitic Diseases Humans Human Activities Parasitology sense organs skin and connective tissue diseases |
| Zdroj: | Acta Tropica. 129:33-41 |
| ISSN: | 0001-706X |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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