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Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambarene, Gabon.
Following a 2-week trip to Kazakhstan, a 42-year-old woman presented at the emergency department in Germany with fever, headache, nausea, and neurological symptoms. An infection with Plasmodium falciparum was rapidly diagnosed. The patient was immediately treated with intravenous artesunate and transferred to an intensive care unit.
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National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, 1504, Sofia, 26 Yanko Sakazov Blvd., Bulgaria. Electronic address:
Background: Bulgaria, with a high endemicity for malaria in the past, was declared by the WHO as a malaria-free country in 1965. We intended to analyze the epidemiological and clinical implications of imported malaria cases in Bulgaria.
Methods: This is a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of all recorded cases of imported malaria in Bulgaria over a 21-year period (2000-2020).
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Malaria Research Laboratory, Yaoundé Research Institute (IRY), Organization for the Coordination of Endemic Diseases' Control in Central Africa (OCEAC), Yaoundé P.O. Box 288, Cameroon.
Despite the implementation of preventive measures in airports and aircrafts, the risk of importing spp. infected mosquitoes is still present in malaria-free countries. Evidence suggests that mosquitoes have found a new alliance with the globalization of trade and climate change, leading to an upsurge of malaria parasite transmission around airports.
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University Museum System of Siena (Simus), History of Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
Fifty years ago, Italy was declared a malaria-free country by the World Health Organization (WHO). In remembering this important anniversary, the authors of this paper describe the long journey that led to this goal. In the century following the unification of Italy, malaria was one of the main public health problems.
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Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology, Hospital-University Polyclinic, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
Italy was declared malaria free by the World Health Organization in 1970. Despite this, nonimport malaria cases are on the increase in Italy and throughout the Mediterranean area. In Italy, in the period between 2011 and 2015, seven cases of locally acquired malaria have been reported, including one introduced case of ; moreover, the last certain case of introduced malaria (by has been reported in Tuscany in 1997.
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