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Laboratory of Hematozoan Transmitting Mosquitoes

The Laboratory of Mosquitoes Transmitting Hematozoa (LATHEMA) of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) has been active since 1981 in research, teaching, training of human resources and scientific dissemination in surveillance and control of mosquito vectors of pathogens such as dengue (DENV), Zika (ZIKV), yellow fever (YFV), chikungunya (CHIKV), fever West Nile (FNO) and Plasmodium. 

In this way, it acts synergistically with national and international research groups aiming at the production of knowledge in taxonomy, vectorial capacity and competence and resolution of problems in public health.

It is a Regional Reference in Entomological Surveillance for: Yellow Fever, West Nile Fever and Extra-Amazonian Malaria Transmission. The Laboratory houses the Culicidae Collection (CCULI) of the IOC. 

Among LATHEMA's topics of interest are: mosquitoes that transmit arboviruses; entomological and epidemiological aspects of malaria; and taxonomy and phylogeny of mosquitoes.  

Head of the Laboratory of Hematozoan Transmitting Mosquitoes 
Rafael Maciel de Freitas (Curriculum lattes) 

Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Mosquitoes Transmitting Hematozoans 
Dinair Couto Lima (Curriculum lattes)

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