First imported Plasmodium ovale malaria in Central America: case report of a Guatemalan soldier and a call to improve its accurate diagnosis

The Mesoamerican Ministers of Health have set 2020 as the target for malaria elimination to be achieved in the region. Imported malaria cases are a potential threat to countries attempting elimination or working to prevent resurgence. We report the first imported Plasmodium ovale infection with mole...

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Autores principales: Castellanos, María Eugenia, Díaz, Sheilee, Parsons, Emily, Peruski, Leonard F, Enríquez, Fabiola, Ramírez, Juan Luis, Padilla, Norma
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4340331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25722882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40779-015-0030-9
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author Castellanos, María Eugenia
Díaz, Sheilee
Parsons, Emily
Peruski, Leonard F
Enríquez, Fabiola
Ramírez, Juan Luis
Padilla, Norma
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description The Mesoamerican Ministers of Health have set 2020 as the target for malaria elimination to be achieved in the region. Imported malaria cases are a potential threat to countries attempting elimination or working to prevent resurgence. We report the first imported Plasmodium ovale infection with molecular confirmation in Central America, which occurred in a Guatemalan soldier that had been deployed in Africa. The obstacles for its diagnosis using the standard microscopy technique and the need to improve its detection are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-43403312015-02-26 First imported Plasmodium ovale malaria in Central America: case report of a Guatemalan soldier and a call to improve its accurate diagnosis Castellanos, María Eugenia Díaz, Sheilee Parsons, Emily Peruski, Leonard F Enríquez, Fabiola Ramírez, Juan Luis Padilla, Norma Mil Med Res Case Report The Mesoamerican Ministers of Health have set 2020 as the target for malaria elimination to be achieved in the region. Imported malaria cases are a potential threat to countries attempting elimination or working to prevent resurgence. We report the first imported Plasmodium ovale infection with molecular confirmation in Central America, which occurred in a Guatemalan soldier that had been deployed in Africa. The obstacles for its diagnosis using the standard microscopy technique and the need to improve its detection are discussed. BioMed Central 2015-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4340331/ /pubmed/25722882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40779-015-0030-9 Text en © Castellanos et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Castellanos, María Eugenia
Díaz, Sheilee
Parsons, Emily
Peruski, Leonard F
Enríquez, Fabiola
Ramírez, Juan Luis
Padilla, Norma
First imported Plasmodium ovale malaria in Central America: case report of a Guatemalan soldier and a call to improve its accurate diagnosis
title First imported Plasmodium ovale malaria in Central America: case report of a Guatemalan soldier and a call to improve its accurate diagnosis
title_full First imported Plasmodium ovale malaria in Central America: case report of a Guatemalan soldier and a call to improve its accurate diagnosis
title_fullStr First imported Plasmodium ovale malaria in Central America: case report of a Guatemalan soldier and a call to improve its accurate diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed First imported Plasmodium ovale malaria in Central America: case report of a Guatemalan soldier and a call to improve its accurate diagnosis
title_short First imported Plasmodium ovale malaria in Central America: case report of a Guatemalan soldier and a call to improve its accurate diagnosis
title_sort first imported plasmodium ovale malaria in central america: case report of a guatemalan soldier and a call to improve its accurate diagnosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4340331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25722882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40779-015-0030-9
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