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Volume 32, Number 5—May 2026

Research

Zoonotic and Anthroponotic Plasmodium spp. Circulation between Wild Primates and Indigenous Community, Peruvian Amazon, 2007–2020

Gabriela M. UlloaComments to Author , Alex D. Greenwood, Omar E. Cornejo, Henar Alonso, Meddly L. Santolalla Robles, Stephanie Montero, Andres G. Lescano, and Pedro Mayor
Author affiliation: Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Belém-Pará, Brazil (G.M. Ulloa); Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru (G.M. Ulloa); Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany (A.D. Greenwood); Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin (A.D. Greenwood); University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA (O.E. Cornejo); University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain (H. Alonso); Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima (M.L. Santolalla Robles, S. Montero, A.G. Lescano); Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima (S. Montero); Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra-Barcelona, Spain (P. Mayor); Comunidad de Manejo de Fauna Silvestre en la Amazonía y en Latinoamérica, Iquitos, Peru (P. Mayor); Museo de Culturas Indígenas Amazónicas, Iquitos (P. Mayor)

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Figure 1

Geographic location of study of zoonotic and anthroponotic Plasmodium spp. circulation between wild primates and Indigenous community, Peruvian Amazon, 2007–2020. Red dot indicates Yagua Indigenous community of Nueva Esperanza, located along the Yavarí-Mirín River near the Peru–Brazil border. Gray dots represent locations of legally hunted nonhuman primates sampled during 2007–2020. Inset map indicates location of community (indicated by red dot in red square) at Peru–Brazil border.

Figure 1. Geographic location of study of zoonotic and anthroponotic Plasmodium spp. circulation between wild primates and Indigenous community, Peruvian Amazon, 2007–2020. Red dot indicates Yagua Indigenous community of Nueva Esperanza, located along the Yavarí-Mirín River near the Peru–Brazil border. Gray dots represent locations of legally hunted nonhuman primates sampled during 2007–2020. Inset map indicates location of community (indicated by red dot in red square) at Peru–Brazil border.

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