Imported malaria at Italy's National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, 1984-2003
| Autor: | Maria Grazia Paglia, Piero Ghirga, C. Vlassi, Silvia Pittalis, Pasquale Narciso, C. Ferrari, Emanuele Nicastri, M. De Marco, F. Spinazzola |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Plasmodium Multivariate analysis Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Chemoprevention Medical microbiology Environmental health parasitic diseases Medicine Travel medicine Animals Humans media_common Retrospective Studies Travel biology business.industry Retrospective cohort study Plasmodium falciparum General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Surgery Malaria Infectious Diseases Italy Chemoprophylaxis Female business |
| Zdroj: | European journal of clinical microbiologyinfectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology. 26(3) |
| ISSN: | 0934-9723 |
| Popis: | Imported malaria is the most common cause of fatal infections in returning travellers. The increased amount of both tourist movement and migration has resulted in a growing number of people at risk of infection. In the present study, 507 malaria patients admitted to Italy’s National Institute for Infectious Diseases in Rome between January 1984 and December 2003 were studied. Overall, 445 cases, or 87.7%, were acquired in Africa, of which 55% were acquired in five sub-Saharan countries. Plasmodium falciparum accounted for 393 (77.5%) of the imported cases. Patients consisted of short-term travellers (n = 213, 42%), long-term visitors (n = 134, 26.4%), and immigrants from endemic areas (n = 137, 27%). Malaria chemoprophylaxis was completed in less than one-quarter of all patients, with immigrants having the lowest rate of completion: only 3.6% of immigrants fully completed chemoprophylaxis compared to 31% of short-term travellers and 29.1% of long-term visitors (p |
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