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Euro Surveill. Plasmodium knowlesi infection imported to Germany, January 2013
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 18, Issue 40, 03 October 2013
Rapid communications
Plasmodium knowlesi infection imported to Germany, January 2013
H Orth<SUP>1</SUP>, B O Jensen<SUP>1</SUP>, M C Holtfreter<SUP>1</SUP>, S J Kocheril<SUP>1</SUP>, S Mallach<SUP>1</SUP>, C MacKenzie<SUP>2</SUP>, I M?ller-St?ver<SUP>1</SUP>, B Henrich<SUP>2</SUP>, M Imwong<SUP>3</SUP>, N J White<SUP>4</SUP>, D H?ussinger<SUP>1</SUP>, J Richter <SUP>1</SUP>
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<SUP>1</SUP>Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich-Heine-University, D?sseldorf, Germany; 2 Department of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine University, D?sseldorf, Germany; 3 Department of Molecular Tropical Medicine and Genetics, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; 4 Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit; Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Citation style for this article: Orth H, Jensen BO, Holtfreter MC, Kocheril SJ, Mallach S, MacKenzie C, M?ller-St?ver I, Henrich B, Imwong M, White NJ, H?ussinger D, Richter J. Plasmodium knowlesi infection imported to Germany, January 2013. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(40):pii=20603. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20603
Date of submission: 02 October 2013
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Plasmodium knowlesi was known as a plasmodium of macaques until P. knowlesi transmission to humans was recognised in Borneo and later throughout South-East Asia. We describe here a case of a P. knowlesi infection imported to Germany from Thailand. The patient had not taken antimalarial chemoprophylaxis and suffered from daily fever attacks. Microscopy revealed trophozoites and gametocytes resembling P. malariae. P. knowlesi malaria was confirmed by PCR.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 18, Issue 40, 03 October 2013
Rapid communications
Plasmodium knowlesi infection imported to Germany, January 2013
H Orth<SUP>1</SUP>, B O Jensen<SUP>1</SUP>, M C Holtfreter<SUP>1</SUP>, S J Kocheril<SUP>1</SUP>, S Mallach<SUP>1</SUP>, C MacKenzie<SUP>2</SUP>, I M?ller-St?ver<SUP>1</SUP>, B Henrich<SUP>2</SUP>, M Imwong<SUP>3</SUP>, N J White<SUP>4</SUP>, D H?ussinger<SUP>1</SUP>, J Richter <SUP>1</SUP>
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<SUP>1</SUP>Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich-Heine-University, D?sseldorf, Germany; 2 Department of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine University, D?sseldorf, Germany; 3 Department of Molecular Tropical Medicine and Genetics, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; 4 Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit; Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Citation style for this article: Orth H, Jensen BO, Holtfreter MC, Kocheril SJ, Mallach S, MacKenzie C, M?ller-St?ver I, Henrich B, Imwong M, White NJ, H?ussinger D, Richter J. Plasmodium knowlesi infection imported to Germany, January 2013. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(40):pii=20603. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20603
Date of submission: 02 October 2013
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Plasmodium knowlesi was known as a plasmodium of macaques until P. knowlesi transmission to humans was recognised in Borneo and later throughout South-East Asia. We describe here a case of a P. knowlesi infection imported to Germany from Thailand. The patient had not taken antimalarial chemoprophylaxis and suffered from daily fever attacks. Microscopy revealed trophozoites and gametocytes resembling P. malariae. P. knowlesi malaria was confirmed by PCR.
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