Autochthonous Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Greek schoolgirl of the Attica region

• Published in: Malaria Journal
• Main Authors: Loupa Chariclia V, Tzanetou Konstantina, Kotsantis Ioannis, Panopoulos Stylianos, Lelekis Moyssis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2012
• Subjects: Malaria; Autochthonous; Plasmodium vivax; Greece; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-52; https://doaj.org/article/fa9653cacffa4ccbb97dcfe2f6584070

Abstract In August 2009, one case of autochthonous malaria due to Plasmodium vivax was diagnosed in Greece in a young woman residing in the Eastern Attica region. The source of infection could not be identified. No other autochthonous malaria cases have been described in the Attica region since 1974. This was a sporadic case with no evidence of further local transmission, and no more cases have been reported in Attica up to now, two years later.