First autochthonous malaria case due to Plasmodium vivax since eradication, Spain, October 2010
| Autor: | B Adiego Sancho, Katrin Leitmeyer, P Santa-Olalla Peralta, M J Sierra-Moros, J Lucientes-Curdi, M C Vazquez-Torres, A Puy-Azón, P Mairal-Claver, E Latorre-Fandos, P Cortina-Solano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Endemic Diseases Epidemiology Treatment outcome Plasmodium vivax Primaquine Polymerase Chain Reaction Antimalarials Virology parasitic diseases medicine Malaria Vivax Anopheles atroparvus Humans Protozoal disease Microscopy biology Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Chloroquine biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Autochthonous Transmission Treatment Outcome Spain Vector (epidemiology) Disease transmission Malaria Demography |
| Zdroj: | Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin. 15(41) |
| ISSN: | 1560-7917 |
| Popis: | In October 2010, one case of autochthonous malaria due to Plasmodium vivax was diagnosed in Spain. The case occurred in Aragon, north-eastern Spain, where the vector Anopheles atroparvus is present. Although the source of infection could not be identified, this event highlights that sporadic autochthonous transmission of vector-borne diseases in continental Europe is possible and calls for enhanced surveillance and vector control measures. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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