Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Romanian traveller returning from Greece, August 2011

S A Florescu; C P Popescu; P Calistru; E Ceausu; M Nica; A Toderan; M Zaharia; P Parola

doi:10.2807/ese.16.35.19954-en

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Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Romanian traveller returning from Greece, August 2011
S A Florescu^1,2 , C P Popescu^1,2,3 , P Calistru^1,2 , E Ceausu^1,2 , M Nica^1,2 , A Toderan¹ , M Zaharia¹ , P Parola^3,4,5
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Affiliations: ¹ ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania ² ‘Dr Victor Babes’ Hospital for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Bucharest, Romania ³ EuroTravNet, European Travel and Tropical Medicine Network, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ⁴ GeoSentinel, the Global Surveillance Network of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ⁵ Faculty of Medicine, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

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P Parola
philippe.parola univmed.fr
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Citation style for this article: Florescu S A, Popescu C P, Calistru P, Ceausu E, Nica M, Toderan A, Zaharia M, Parola P. Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Romanian traveller returning from Greece, August 2011. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(35):pii=19954. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.16.35.19954-en Received: 26 Aug 2011

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Abstract

In August 2011, a Plasmodium vivax malaria infection was diagnosed in a Romanian traveller returning from Greece. This case together with several reports over the past decade of autochthonous cases in Greece highlight that malaria should be considered as differential diagnosis in symptomatic travellers returning from this country. Travellers may serve as sentinels of emerging vector-borne diseases.