Cryptic severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria in a Moroccan man living in Tuscany, Italy, August 2018

In August 2018 a Moroccan man living in Tuscany developed Plasmodium falciparum malaria. The patient declared having not recently visited any endemic country, leading to diagnostic delay and severe malaria. As susceptibility to P. falciparum of Anopheles species in Tuscany is very low, and other ris...

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Autores principales: Zammarchi, Lorenzo, Di Lauria, Nicoletta, Bartalesi, Filippo, Suardi, Lorenzo Roberto, Corti, Giampaolo, Mencarini, Jessica, Boccolini, Daniela, Severini, Carlo, Gradoni, Luigi, Buonamici, Carla, Garofalo, Giorgio, Bartolesi, Anna Maria, Ciccone, Nunziata, Berni, Andrea, Poggesi, Loredana, Niccolini, Fabrizio, Rossolini, Gian Maria, Romi, Roberto, Bartoloni, Alessandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2018
Materias:
Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30326993
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.41.1800527
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Sumario:In August 2018 a Moroccan man living in Tuscany developed Plasmodium falciparum malaria. The patient declared having not recently visited any endemic country, leading to diagnostic delay and severe malaria. As susceptibility to P. falciparum of Anopheles species in Tuscany is very low, and other risk factors for acquiring malaria could not be completely excluded, the case remains cryptic, similar to other P. falciparum malaria cases previously reported in African individuals living in Apulia in 2017.

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