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Autochthonous Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Greek schoolgirl of the Attica region

In August 2009, one case of autochthonous malaria due to Plasmodium vivax was diagnosed in Greece in a young woman residing in the Eastern Attica region. The source of infection could not be identified. No other autochthonous malaria cases have been described in the Attica region since 1974. This wa...

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Autores principales: Loupa, Chariclia V, Tzanetou, Konstantina, Kotsantis, Ioannis, Panopoulos, Stylianos, Lelekis, Moyssis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351731/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22353879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-52
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Sumario:In August 2009, one case of autochthonous malaria due to Plasmodium vivax was diagnosed in Greece in a young woman residing in the Eastern Attica region. The source of infection could not be identified. No other autochthonous malaria cases have been described in the Attica region since 1974. This was a sporadic case with no evidence of further local transmission, and no more cases have been reported in Attica up to now, two years later.