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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Case Report
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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author Loupa, Chariclia V
Tzanetou, Konstantina
Kotsantis, Ioannis
Panopoulos, Stylianos
Lelekis, Moyssis
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-33517312012-05-16 Autochthonous Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Greek schoolgirl of the Attica region Loupa, Chariclia V Tzanetou, Konstantina Kotsantis, Ioannis Panopoulos, Stylianos Lelekis, Moyssis Malar J Case Report 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. BioMed Central 2012-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3351731/ /pubmed/22353879 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-52 Text en Copyright ©2012 Loupa et al; BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Loupa, Chariclia V
Tzanetou, Konstantina
Kotsantis, Ioannis
Panopoulos, Stylianos
Lelekis, Moyssis
Autochthonous Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Greek schoolgirl of the Attica region
title Autochthonous Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Greek schoolgirl of the Attica region
title_full Autochthonous Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Greek schoolgirl of the Attica region
title_fullStr Autochthonous Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Greek schoolgirl of the Attica region
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title_short Autochthonous Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Greek schoolgirl of the Attica region
title_sort autochthonous plasmodium vivax malaria in a greek schoolgirl of the attica region
topic Case Report
url 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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