The Laboratory of Biology and Parasitology of Wild Mammals Reservoirs (LABPMR) of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC/Fiocruz) has carried out research, technological development, innovation and training of human resources since 1991 in the characterization and understanding of the relationship between health and environment through the study of the biodiversity of host/reservoir mammals and their parasites.

The Laboratory also investigates its relationship with the occupation of the landscape by human populations, providing subsidies for the prevention and confrontation of zoonotic endemic diseases, and for the conservation of animal species.

The LBPMR is a National Reference in Taxonomy and Diagnosis of Wild Leishmaniasis Reservoirs and houses the Integrated Collection of Wild Mammals and Reservoirs (COLMASTO).

Research is carried out on taxonomy and phylogeny of small wild mammals and their parasitic helminths; in ecology of small mammal populations; and the parasite-host relationship vertebrate and mollusc and epidemiology of human parasites

Among the Laboratory's lines of research, the study of factors related to the natural history and the dynamics of transmission of zoonoses in wild mammals, with emphasis on the natural infection by schistosoma mansoni, echinostoma spp, Angiostrongylus cantonensis.,trypanosoma cruzi, hantavirus and poxvirus.

The ecology, genetics and systematics of wild mammals, the biology, genetics and systematics of helminth parasites of wild mammals are also subject to research; and the interaction of trematodes schistosoma mansoni e Echinostoma paraensei with their natural hosts biomphalaria spp. 

The Laboratory also develops methodologies for testing helminthic drugs vitro and the effects of pesticides on molluscs. More recently, it has been developing models that evaluate determinants and limiting factors of the spatial distributions of pathogens and hosts, as well as predictive models of geographic locations where disease outbreaks are more likely to occur, identifying the hosts/reservoirs from which the pathogens have more probability of emerging. 

Head of the Laboratory of Biology and Parasitology of Wild Mammals Reservoirs 
Arnaldo Maldonado Junior (Curriculum lattes) 

Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Biology and Parasitology of Wild Mammals Reservoirs 
Paulo Sergio D'Andrea (Curriculum lattes)