An Epidemiological Analysis of 28 Vivax Malaria Cases in Gimpo-si, Korea, 2020.

ABSTRACT: Since 1993, vivax malaria has been recognized as a public health burden in Korea. Despite of pan-governmental malaria-control efforts and the dramatic reduction in the burden of this disease over the last 10 years, vivax malaria has not been well controlled and has remained continuously endemic. We focused interviewed and examined the charts of 28 confirmed vivax malaria patients given malarial therapy for whom daily records were kept from Gimpo-si, Gyeonggido of Korea. Various epidemiological characteristics of vivax malaria, including the incubation period, medication used, and recurrence, and an evaluation of the parasitic characteristics from the focused interviews of patients from this region are described here. Most of the participants indicated the 3 most common symptoms of malaria

SUBMITTER: Bahk YY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8561053 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature