Published Date: 2011-09-23 17:22:14
Subject: PRO/EDR> Malaria, P. vivax - Greece (04): autochthonous
Archive Number: 20110923.2879
MALARIA, P. VIVAX - GREECE (04): AUTOCHTHONOUS
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Date: Fri 23 Sep 2011
From: Corneliu Petru Popescu [edited]
<cornel160@yahoo.com>
New _Plasmodium vivax_ infected patient in Greece
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I would like to announce that we had from 19 Sep 2011 a new case of
malaria with _P. vivax_ in a patient who lived in Greece for the last
3 years and returned 3 weeks ago. He worked in the south, in the same
region as the previous patient
(http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19954),
in the Leimonas village, near Skala and Elos.
The traveler had no history of travel to any malaria-endemic areas.
The patient was a citizen from Romania and was admitted and diagnosed
at the Clinical Hospital of Infectious and Tropical Diseases Dr V
Babes in Bucharest.
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Corneliu Petru Popescu <cornel160@yahoo.com>
Simin Aysel Florescu <siminflorescu@yahoo.com>
Dr V Babes Clinical Hospital of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Bucharest Romania
[The last patient was reported from Romania on 1 Aug 2011, and the
present case adds up to 8 cases of _P. vivax_ infected in Greece since
June 2011. The patients were infected in 2 areas: Euboea and the
Evrotas river basin.
It is disturbing that new cases continue to appear. We speculated
earlier that the cases resulted from migrant workers from endemic
areas being asymptomatic gametocyte carriers, but as new cases
continue to be found, local reservoirs in these 2 regions must be
considered.
Surveys of blood films, perhaps seropositivity for malaria antibodies
and investigation of sporozoites in the local _Anopheles_ population
would help define the situation.
ProMED-mail will be happy to publish further information. - Mod.EP]
[Leimonas, Skala, and Elos can be located via the
HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map of Greece at
http://healthmap.org/r/1gW_. - Sr.Tech.Ed.MJ]
See Also
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2010
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Malaria, autochthonous - USA: (FL) 20101202.4333
Malaria - France: imported infected mosquitoes 20101114.4134
Malaria, P. vivax, autochthonous - Spain: (AR) 20101009.3671
Malaria, falciparum - Jamaica: (Kingston) 20100216.0545
2009
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Malaria, autochthonous - Italy (03) 20091108.3863
Malaria, falciparum - Jamaica: (SC) RFI 20090315.1058
2008
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Malaria - Jamaica (02): St. Catherine, RFI 20080922.2992
Malaria, airport - France: (Paris) 20080901.2735
2007
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Malaria - Jamaica (Kingston) (09) 20071024.3461
2006
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Malaria - Jamaica (Kingston) (03) 20061228.3640
Malaria, autochthonous - France (Corsica) 20061117.3286
Malaria - Bahamas (Exuma Islands) (02) 20060921.2698
2004
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Malaria, risk of local transmission - USA (FL) 20040703.1782
2003
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Malaria, autochthonous - USA (FL) (04) 20030925.2427
2002
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Malaria - United States (Virginia) 20020907.5250
Malaria, nosocomial infection - UK (02) 20020225.3630
Malaria, imported (airport?) - UK (England) 20020830.5185
2000
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Malaria, vivax - Germany ex Greece 20000713.1158
1999
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Malaria, airport - Luxembourg 19990825.1485
1998
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Malaria - USA (Virginia) 19980802.1470
1997
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Airport malaria - Australia (03) 19970403.0694
Malaria, locally acquired - USA (Georgia) 19970329.0664
1995
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Airport malaria - Belgium 19951023.0971
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