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An Epidemiological Analysis of 28 Vivax Malaria Cases in Gimpo-si, Korea, 2020

Since 1993, vivax malaria has been recognized as a public health burden in Korea. Despite of pan-governmental malaria-control efforts and the dramatic reduction in the burden of this disease over the last 10 years, vivax malaria has not been well controlled and has remained continuously endemic. We...

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Autores principales: Bahk, Young Yil, Cho, Shin-Hyeong, Kim, Kyoung-Nam, Shin, Eun-Hee, Jeon, Byoung-Hak, Kim, Jeong-Hyun, Park, Sookkyung, Kwon, Jeongran, Kan, Hyesu, Kim, Miyoung, Kim, Tong-Soo
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Publicado: The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8561053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34724771
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2021.59.5.507
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author Bahk, Young Yil
Cho, Shin-Hyeong
Kim, Kyoung-Nam
Shin, Eun-Hee
Jeon, Byoung-Hak
Kim, Jeong-Hyun
Park, Sookkyung
Kwon, Jeongran
Kan, Hyesu
Kim, Miyoung
Kim, Tong-Soo
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Cho, Shin-Hyeong
Kim, Kyoung-Nam
Shin, Eun-Hee
Jeon, Byoung-Hak
Kim, Jeong-Hyun
Park, Sookkyung
Kwon, Jeongran
Kan, Hyesu
Kim, Miyoung
Kim, Tong-Soo
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description Since 1993, vivax malaria has been recognized as a public health burden in Korea. Despite of pan-governmental malaria-control efforts and the dramatic reduction in the burden of this disease over the last 10 years, vivax malaria has not been well controlled and has remained continuously endemic. We focused interviewed and examined the charts of 28 confirmed vivax malaria patients given malarial therapy for whom daily records were kept from Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do of Korea. Various epidemiological characteristics of vivax malaria, including the incubation period, medication used, and recurrence, and an evaluation of the parasitic characteristics from the focused interviews of patients from this region are described here. Most of the participants indicated the 3 most common symptoms of malaria (headache, chills and fever). Of the 28 cases, 2 experienced a second attack and there were 17 and 11 cases with short- and long-term incubation periods, respectively, yielding a short-term to long-term ratio of 1.5. Based on the parasitemia stages, most of the participants were tested at 5 to 7 days (11 cases) and 7 to 15 days (11 cases) after initial wave of asexual parasites. In conclusion, public health authorities should consider developing management measures to decrease the time lag for diagnosis and drafting unified and robust guidelines for drug use for malaria and drawing up unified and robust guidelines on the use of medication for malaria. It also suggests that routine monitoring, surveillance, and precise medical surveys in high-risk vivax malaria endemic areas are pivotal to controlling this persistent public disease and finally eliminating it from Korea.
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spelling pubmed-85610532021-11-08 An Epidemiological Analysis of 28 Vivax Malaria Cases in Gimpo-si, Korea, 2020 Bahk, Young Yil Cho, Shin-Hyeong Kim, Kyoung-Nam Shin, Eun-Hee Jeon, Byoung-Hak Kim, Jeong-Hyun Park, Sookkyung Kwon, Jeongran Kan, Hyesu Kim, Miyoung Kim, Tong-Soo Korean J Parasitol Brief Communication Since 1993, vivax malaria has been recognized as a public health burden in Korea. Despite of pan-governmental malaria-control efforts and the dramatic reduction in the burden of this disease over the last 10 years, vivax malaria has not been well controlled and has remained continuously endemic. We focused interviewed and examined the charts of 28 confirmed vivax malaria patients given malarial therapy for whom daily records were kept from Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do of Korea. Various epidemiological characteristics of vivax malaria, including the incubation period, medication used, and recurrence, and an evaluation of the parasitic characteristics from the focused interviews of patients from this region are described here. Most of the participants indicated the 3 most common symptoms of malaria (headache, chills and fever). Of the 28 cases, 2 experienced a second attack and there were 17 and 11 cases with short- and long-term incubation periods, respectively, yielding a short-term to long-term ratio of 1.5. Based on the parasitemia stages, most of the participants were tested at 5 to 7 days (11 cases) and 7 to 15 days (11 cases) after initial wave of asexual parasites. In conclusion, public health authorities should consider developing management measures to decrease the time lag for diagnosis and drafting unified and robust guidelines for drug use for malaria and drawing up unified and robust guidelines on the use of medication for malaria. It also suggests that routine monitoring, surveillance, and precise medical surveys in high-risk vivax malaria endemic areas are pivotal to controlling this persistent public disease and finally eliminating it from Korea. The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2021-10 2021-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8561053/ /pubmed/34724771 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2021.59.5.507 Text en © 2021, Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Brief Communication
Bahk, Young Yil
Cho, Shin-Hyeong
Kim, Kyoung-Nam
Shin, Eun-Hee
Jeon, Byoung-Hak
Kim, Jeong-Hyun
Park, Sookkyung
Kwon, Jeongran
Kan, Hyesu
Kim, Miyoung
Kim, Tong-Soo
An Epidemiological Analysis of 28 Vivax Malaria Cases in Gimpo-si, Korea, 2020
title An Epidemiological Analysis of 28 Vivax Malaria Cases in Gimpo-si, Korea, 2020
title_full An Epidemiological Analysis of 28 Vivax Malaria Cases in Gimpo-si, Korea, 2020
title_fullStr An Epidemiological Analysis of 28 Vivax Malaria Cases in Gimpo-si, Korea, 2020
title_full_unstemmed An Epidemiological Analysis of 28 Vivax Malaria Cases in Gimpo-si, Korea, 2020
title_short An Epidemiological Analysis of 28 Vivax Malaria Cases in Gimpo-si, Korea, 2020
title_sort epidemiological analysis of 28 vivax malaria cases in gimpo-si, korea, 2020
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8561053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34724771
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2021.59.5.507
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