Management of imported malaria in Europe
In this position paper, the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Study Group on Clinical Parasitology, summarizes main issues regarding the management of imported malaria cases. Malaria is a rare diagnosis in Europe, but it is a medical emergency. A travel history is t...
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pubmed-34898572012-11-06 Management of imported malaria in Europe Askling, Helena H Bruneel, Fabrice Burchard, Gerd Castelli, Francesco Chiodini, Peter L Grobusch, Martin P Lopez-Vélez, Rogelio Paul, Margaret Petersen, Eskild Popescu, Corneliu Ramharter, Michael Schlagenhauf, Patricia Review In this position paper, the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Study Group on Clinical Parasitology, summarizes main issues regarding the management of imported malaria cases. Malaria is a rare diagnosis in Europe, but it is a medical emergency. A travel history is the key to suspecting malaria and is mandatory in patients with fever. There are no specific clinical signs or symptoms of malaria although fever is seen in almost all non-immune patients. Migrants from malaria endemic areas may have few symptoms. BioMed Central 2012-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3489857/ /pubmed/22985344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-328 Text en Copyright ©2012 Askling et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Askling, Helena H Bruneel, Fabrice Burchard, Gerd Castelli, Francesco Chiodini, Peter L Grobusch, Martin P Lopez-Vélez, Rogelio Paul, Margaret Petersen, Eskild Popescu, Corneliu Ramharter, Michael Schlagenhauf, Patricia |
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Askling, Helena H Bruneel, Fabrice Burchard, Gerd Castelli, Francesco Chiodini, Peter L Grobusch, Martin P Lopez-Vélez, Rogelio Paul, Margaret Petersen, Eskild Popescu, Corneliu Ramharter, Michael Schlagenhauf, Patricia Management of imported malaria in Europe |
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Askling, Helena H Bruneel, Fabrice Burchard, Gerd Castelli, Francesco Chiodini, Peter L Grobusch, Martin P Lopez-Vélez, Rogelio Paul, Margaret Petersen, Eskild Popescu, Corneliu Ramharter, Michael Schlagenhauf, Patricia |
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Management of imported malaria in Europe |
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In this position paper, the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Study Group on Clinical Parasitology, summarizes main issues regarding the management of imported malaria cases. Malaria is a rare diagnosis in Europe, but it is a medical emergency. A travel history is the key to suspecting malaria and is mandatory in patients with fever. There are no specific clinical signs or symptoms of malaria although fever is seen in almost all non-immune patients. Migrants from malaria endemic areas may have few symptoms. |
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