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Epidemiology of Malaria in the State of Qatar, 2008–2015
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Imported malaria poses a serious public health problem in Qatar because its population is “naïve” to such infection; where local transmission might lead to serious, life-threatening infection and might even trigger epidemics. METHODS: This study is a retrospective review o...
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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6131099/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30210743 http://dx.doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2018.050 |
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author | Farag, Elmoubasher Bansal, Devendra Chehab, Mohamad Abdul Halim Al-Dahshan, Ayman Bala, Mohamed Ganesan, Nandakumar Al Abdulla, Yosuf Abdulla Al Thani, Mohammed Sultan, Ali A. Al-Romaihi, Hamad |
author_facet | Farag, Elmoubasher Bansal, Devendra Chehab, Mohamad Abdul Halim Al-Dahshan, Ayman Bala, Mohamed Ganesan, Nandakumar Al Abdulla, Yosuf Abdulla Al Thani, Mohammed Sultan, Ali A. Al-Romaihi, Hamad |
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description | BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Imported malaria poses a serious public health problem in Qatar because its population is “naïve” to such infection; where local transmission might lead to serious, life-threatening infection and might even trigger epidemics. METHODS: This study is a retrospective review of the imported malaria cases in Qatar reported by the malaria surveillance program at the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), during the period between January 2008 and December 2015. All cases were imported and underwent parasitological confirmation through microscopy. RESULTS: A total of 4092 malaria cases were reported during 2008–2015 in Qatar. The demographic features of the imported cases show that the majority of cases were males (93%), non-Qatari (99.6%), and aged 15 to 44 years (82.1%). Moreover, P. vivax was found to be the main etiologic agent accounting for more than three-quarters (78.7%) of the imported cases. In addition, almost a third (33.1%) of the cases were reported during the months of July, August, and September. CONCLUSIONS: Imported malaria in Qatar has witnessed an increase during the past seven years, despite a long period of constant reduction; where the people most affected were adult male migrants from endemic countries. Many challenges need to be overcome to prevent the reintroduction of malaria into the country. |
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spelling | pubmed-61310992018-09-12 Epidemiology of Malaria in the State of Qatar, 2008–2015 Farag, Elmoubasher Bansal, Devendra Chehab, Mohamad Abdul Halim Al-Dahshan, Ayman Bala, Mohamed Ganesan, Nandakumar Al Abdulla, Yosuf Abdulla Al Thani, Mohammed Sultan, Ali A. Al-Romaihi, Hamad Mediterr J Hematol Infect Dis Original Article BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Imported malaria poses a serious public health problem in Qatar because its population is “naïve” to such infection; where local transmission might lead to serious, life-threatening infection and might even trigger epidemics. METHODS: This study is a retrospective review of the imported malaria cases in Qatar reported by the malaria surveillance program at the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), during the period between January 2008 and December 2015. All cases were imported and underwent parasitological confirmation through microscopy. RESULTS: A total of 4092 malaria cases were reported during 2008–2015 in Qatar. The demographic features of the imported cases show that the majority of cases were males (93%), non-Qatari (99.6%), and aged 15 to 44 years (82.1%). Moreover, P. vivax was found to be the main etiologic agent accounting for more than three-quarters (78.7%) of the imported cases. In addition, almost a third (33.1%) of the cases were reported during the months of July, August, and September. CONCLUSIONS: Imported malaria in Qatar has witnessed an increase during the past seven years, despite a long period of constant reduction; where the people most affected were adult male migrants from endemic countries. Many challenges need to be overcome to prevent the reintroduction of malaria into the country. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 2018-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6131099/ /pubmed/30210743 http://dx.doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2018.050 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Farag, Elmoubasher Bansal, Devendra Chehab, Mohamad Abdul Halim Al-Dahshan, Ayman Bala, Mohamed Ganesan, Nandakumar Al Abdulla, Yosuf Abdulla Al Thani, Mohammed Sultan, Ali A. Al-Romaihi, Hamad Epidemiology of Malaria in the State of Qatar, 2008–2015 |
title | Epidemiology of Malaria in the State of Qatar, 2008–2015 |
title_full | Epidemiology of Malaria in the State of Qatar, 2008–2015 |
title_fullStr | Epidemiology of Malaria in the State of Qatar, 2008–2015 |
title_full_unstemmed | Epidemiology of Malaria in the State of Qatar, 2008–2015 |
title_short | Epidemiology of Malaria in the State of Qatar, 2008–2015 |
title_sort | epidemiology of malaria in the state of qatar, 2008–2015 |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6131099/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30210743 http://dx.doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2018.050 |
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