Non-imported malaria in Italy: paradigmatic approaches and public health implications following an unusual cluster of cases in 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The European region achieved interruption of malaria transmission during the 1970s. Since then, malaria control programs were replaced by surveillance systems in order to prevent possible re-emergence of this disease. Sporadic cases of non-imported malaria were recorded in several European countries in the past decade and locally transmitted outbreaks of Plasmodium vivax, most probably supported by Anopheles sacharovi, have been repeatedly reported from Greece since 2009. The possibility of locally-transmitted malaria has been extensively studied in Italy where the former malaria vector An. labranchiae survived the control campaign which led to malaria elimination. In this study, we present paradigmatic cases that occurred during a 2017 unusual cluster, which caused stro

SUBMITTER: Boccolini D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7275312 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature