Plasmodium vivax malaria acquired in far north Queensland

Plasmodium vivax malaria acquired in far north Queensland

Medical Journal of Australia

• Author(s): Brookes, Dianne L, Ritchie, Scott A, Hurk, Andrew F van den, Fielding, Julie R, Loewenthal, Mark R
• Published: 1997
• Volume: 166

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Abstract: In February 1996, vivax malaria was diagnosed in a man from a remote community in far north Queensland who had not visited a malarious area for the past 19 years. Microscopy and DNA studies of blood from other residents of the community did not identify a source of infection. It was suspected the infection was transmitted by mosquitoes from a neighbour who had been infected in Papua New Guinea, but whose blood was not available for DNA tests.

• Urls: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1997.tb138727.x
• Keywords: malaria