| Literature DB >> 21460005 |
Antoine Berry1, Xavier Iriart, Nathalie Wilhelm, Alexis Valentin, Sophie Cassaing, Benoit Witkowski, Françoise Benoit-Vical, Sandie Menard, David Olagnier, Judith Fillaux, Stephane Sire, Alain Le Coustumier, Jean-François Magnaval.
Abstract
We report a case of imported Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in a French tourist following a vacation in Thailand. This case shows, first, tourists may contract knowlesi malaria even only staying on the beach and second, the diagnosis remains difficult, even with polymerase chain reaction methods.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21460005 PMCID: PMC3062444 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0622
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg ISSN: 0002-9637 Impact factor: 2.345