Imported malaria in pregnant women: A retrospective pooled analysis.

Background: Data on imported malaria in pregnant women are scarce.

Method: A retrospective, descriptive study of pooled data on imported malaria in pregnancy was done using data from 1991 to 2014 from 8 different collaborators in Europe, the United States and Japan. National malaria reference centres as well as specialists on this topic were asked to search their archives for cases of imported malaria in pregnancy.

Clinical diagnostic accuracy of suspected sources of bacteremia and its effect on mortality.

Background: Although much has been written about bacteremia, evidence of the clinical diagnostic accuracy of bacteremia sources in the absence of microbiological results and the impact of diagnostic accuracy on mortality is scarce.

Methods: This is a retrospective study of bacteremia episodes over a 2-year period at a general hospital in Madrid. Congruence analyses between clinically presumed and definite sources, acquisition, causative organism, empirical treatment and progression to death were performed.

Imported malaria in pregnancy in Madrid.

Background: Malaria in pregnancy is associated with maternal and foetal morbidity and mortality in endemic areas, but information on imported cases to non-endemic areas is scarce.The aim of this study was to describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of malaria in pregnancy in two general hospitals in Madrid, Spain.

Methods: Retrospective descriptive study of laboratory-confirmed malaria in pregnant women at the Fuenlabrada University Hospital and the Príncipe de Asturias University Hospital, in Madrid, over a six- and 11-year period, respectively.

Tertian malaria (Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale) in two travelers despite atovaquone-proguanil prophylaxis.

There is limited data regarding the efficacy of prophylaxis with atovaquone/proguanil (A/P) against non-falciparum malaria in travelers. Two cases, one Plasmodium vivax infection and another Plasmodium ovale infection, in travelers despite A/P prophylaxis are presented.