Imported Falciparum malaria in Europe: sentinel surveillance data from the European network on surveillance of imported infectious diseases
Authors
Cuadros González, JuanIdentifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/60483DOI: 10.1086/338235
ISSN: 1058-4838
Date
2002-03-01Academic Departments
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Biomedicina y Biotecnología
Teaching unit
Unidad Docente de Microbiología
Bibliographic citation
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2002, v. , n. , p. -
Keywords
Malaria
Plasmodium falciparum
Imported infectious diseases
Description / Notes
7 p.
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Rights
2002 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
Malaria continues to have a high morbidity rate associated among European travelers. Thorough recording of epidemiological and clinical aspects of imported malaria has been helpful in the detection of new outbreaks and areas of developing drug resistance. Sentinel surveillance of data collected prospectively since 1999 has begun within TropNetEurop, a European network focusing on imported infectious diseases. TropNetEurop appears to cover approximately 10% of all patients with malaria seen in Europe. Reports of 1659 immigrants and European patients with Plasmodium falciparum malaria were analyzed for epidemiological information and data on clinical features. Regional data were quite diverse, reflecting local patterns of immigration and international travel. By far, the most infections were imported from West Africa. Europeans had more clinical complications; consequently, all deaths occurred in this group. Compared with European standards, the mortality rate was low (0.6% in Europeans). Data from TropNetEurop member sites can contribute to our understanding of the epidemiological and clinical findings regarding imported falciparum malaria.
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