Sharp increase of imported Plasmodium vivax malaria seen in migrants from Eritrea in Hamburg, Germany

BACKGROUND: Since 2014, a considerable increase in Plasmodium vivax malaria has been observed in Germany. The majority of cases was seen in Eritrean refugees. METHODS: All patients with P. vivax malaria admitted to the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf Germany from 2011 until August 2015 w...

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Autores principales: Roggelin, Louise, Tappe, Dennis, Noack, Bernd, Addo, Marylyn M., Tannich, Egbert, Rothe, Camilla
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4912711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27316351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1366-7
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author Roggelin, Louise
Tappe, Dennis
Noack, Bernd
Addo, Marylyn M.
Tannich, Egbert
Rothe, Camilla
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description BACKGROUND: Since 2014, a considerable increase in Plasmodium vivax malaria has been observed in Germany. The majority of cases was seen in Eritrean refugees. METHODS: All patients with P. vivax malaria admitted to the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf Germany from 2011 until August 2015 were retrospectively identified by the hospital coding system and data was matched with records from the laboratory diagnostics unit of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany. RESULTS: Between May 2014 and August 2015, 37 cases were reported in newly-arrived Eritrean refugees at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. Relapses occurred due to difficulties in procurement of primaquine. CONCLUSION: Countries hosting Eritrean refugees need to be aware of vivax malaria occurring in this group and the risk of autochthonous cases due to local transmission by indigenous, vector competent Anopheles species.
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spelling pubmed-49127112016-06-19 Sharp increase of imported Plasmodium vivax malaria seen in migrants from Eritrea in Hamburg, Germany Roggelin, Louise Tappe, Dennis Noack, Bernd Addo, Marylyn M. Tannich, Egbert Rothe, Camilla Malar J Research BACKGROUND: Since 2014, a considerable increase in Plasmodium vivax malaria has been observed in Germany. The majority of cases was seen in Eritrean refugees. METHODS: All patients with P. vivax malaria admitted to the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf Germany from 2011 until August 2015 were retrospectively identified by the hospital coding system and data was matched with records from the laboratory diagnostics unit of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany. RESULTS: Between May 2014 and August 2015, 37 cases were reported in newly-arrived Eritrean refugees at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. Relapses occurred due to difficulties in procurement of primaquine. CONCLUSION: Countries hosting Eritrean refugees need to be aware of vivax malaria occurring in this group and the risk of autochthonous cases due to local transmission by indigenous, vector competent Anopheles species. BioMed Central 2016-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4912711/ /pubmed/27316351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1366-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 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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title_full Sharp increase of imported Plasmodium vivax malaria seen in migrants from Eritrea in Hamburg, Germany
title_fullStr Sharp increase of imported Plasmodium vivax malaria seen in migrants from Eritrea in Hamburg, Germany
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title_short Sharp increase of imported Plasmodium vivax malaria seen in migrants from Eritrea in Hamburg, Germany
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4912711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27316351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1366-7
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