CONTENTS

Foreword ........................................................................................ V

List of participants ................................................................................ VI

Ruy LAURENTI - Opening remarks .................................................... S 1

Bemard M. DICKENS - Macrmthics and endemic disease ................... S2

Heitor V. DOURADO - Malaria parasites, vectors and biologic cycle ... S6

Josk Maria de SOUZA -P. falciparm strain resistance to drugs-new

drugs trials ............................................................................................ S10

Alfred0 Martins de OLIVEIRA FILHO - Malaria vector insecticide resistence in the Amazon region. New drugs efficiency ......................... S16

Pedro Luis TAUIL - Intervention possibilities on the biologic cycle of

malaria towards endemism control ....................................................... S21

Temistocles SANCHEZ - Field assays with anti-malarial vaccines:

Phase III protocols ................................................................................ S%

Henrique Leonardo GUERRA - Rank grading in risk factors of

malaria in Ariquemes, Rondania ........................................................... S28

Maria das Graqas Costa ALECRIM - Ethics in seroepidemiology of malaria .............................................................................................. S31

Carlos Edurirdo TOSTA - Malaria vaccines: scientific and ethical issues S33

Marcos BOULOS - Clinical picture of severe malaria ........................... S41

Rosinha Borges DIAS -Every day in new settlement areas and

malaria control strategies ...................................................................... S43

Wilson ALECRIM - h4alaria prospecting activities and government

............................................................... policies in the Amazon region S48

Istvan Van Duersen V ~ G A - Disease perception: a cultural ........................................................................................... prerrogative S49

Bernard M. DICKENS - Commentary 1 ................................................ S52

Jod Arthur GIANNOTTI -Commentary I1 ........................................... S56

........................................................................... Plenary session report S59

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Vo1.34 N 9 P. 51-559 abril, 1992