Amazon region

De Franpa, L.F. et ah. Supercritical extraction of carotenoids and lipids from buriti (Mauritia flexuosa), a fruit from the Amazon region, J. Supercrit. Fluids, 14, 247, 1999. 

The distribution of the various species of malaria is not well defined but P. vivax is reported to be prevalent in the Indian subcontinent, Central America, North Africa, and the Middle East, whereas P. falciparum is predominantly in Africa (including sub-Saharan Africa), both East and West Africa, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Amazon region of South America, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea. Most P. ovale infections occur in Africa, while the distribution of P. malariae is worldwide.7 Most infections in the United States are reported in American travelers, recent immigrants, or immigrants who have visited... 

It is normally found mainly in the Amazon region, the Caribbean, and Panama. The natural reservoir is unknown. It is transmitted by ticks, which remain infective for life. Does not produce disease in animals. This is a biosafety level 3 agent. 

Palheta, D. and A. Taylor. 1995. Mercury in environmental and biological samples from a gold mining area in the Amazon region of Brazil. Sci. Total Environ. 168 63-69. 

The most comprehensive account of the "religious ideas and superstitions" of the Indians of the upper Amazon region is Karsten s description of the Jivaro traditions in The... 

In 2007 and 2008, in Brazil, the number of acute Chagas disease cases was 161 and 123, respectively, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Health. In 2009, with still incomplete reporting, 11 cases were registered (SVS, 2009). Most of them occurred in the Amazon region and involved transmission by the oral route. 

Freitas, G. D., Nobrega, A. A., Romano, A. P., Costa, E. G., Tinoco, J. M., Pontes, M. D., Leite, L. S., and Sobel, J. (2008). Novel food implicated in an outbreak of orally-transmitted acute Chagas disease in an Urban area of the Amazon Region, Brazil, 2007. Abstract published in the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID)— Program and Abstracts Book, Atlanta, GA, USA. p. 121. 

Pessenda, L. C. R., Gouveia, S. E. M., Aravena, R., Gomez, B. M., Boulet, R., and Ribeiro, A. S. (1998). 14C dating and stable carbon isotopes of soil organic matter in forest savanna boundary areas in the southern Brazilian Amazon region. Radiocarbon 40,1013-1022. 

Glaser, B., Balashov, E., Haumaier, L., Guggenberger, G., and Zech, W. (2000). Black carbon in density fractions of anthropogenic soils of the Brazilian Amazon region. Org. Geochem. 31, 669-678. 

For dioxins/furans, the mean level of contamination of local soil was comparable to that reported in most European countries (Eljarrat et al., 2001 Coutinho et al., 2002 UNEP Chemicals, 2002) and higher than that found in the Amazon region (Buckland et al., 1998a). 

The moisture balance in the Amazon region indicates a substantial role of evapo-... 

Salati, E., and J. Marques. 1984. "Climatology of the Amazon region. In The Amazon Limnology and Landscape Ecology of a Mighty Tropical River and its Basin., ed. H. Sioli (W. Junk, Dordrecht, The Netherlands). 

Victoria, R., L. Matinelli, J. Moraes, M. Ballester, A. Knische, G. Pellegrino, R. Almeida, and J. Richey. 1998. Surface air temperature variations in the Amazon region and its border during this century." Journal of Climate 1 1105-1110. 

Talbot et al. (1990) and Swap et al. (1995) have shown the chemistry changes associated with long-range transport of aerosols in the Amazon basin. Also, the Amazon region could receive a large influx of trace elements from Sahara dust and tropical Africa (Swap et al. 1995). The magnitude of this flux that can carry essential nutrients to the Amazon basin is still unknown. 

One of the difficulties in getting information on research already carried out in Brazil is that the dissertations of graduate students in the universities are seldom published in indexed journals. There has been no attempt to compare the cerrados with other savannas in South America, other continents, or Amazon forests because the information available from the cerrados on quantitative aspects of nutrient cycling in natural ecosystems is very meager (Baruch et al. 1996). There are several important studies reported from the Amazon region on nutrient concentrations in plants, litter decomposition, and hydrological cycles over the last couple of... 

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