Castellanos, Maria Eugenia, Bardají, Azucena, Menegon, Michela, Mayor, Alfredo, Desai, Meghna, Severini, Carlo, Menéndez, Clara, and Padilla, Norma (2012) Plasmodium vivax congenital malaria in an area of very low endemicity in Guatemala: implications for clinical and epidemiological surveillance in a malaria elimination context. Malaria Journal, 11. 411.

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Abstract

This is a report of the first Plasmodium vivax congenital malaria case in Guatemala and the first case in Latin America with genotypical, histological and clinical characterization. The findings show that maternal P. vivax infection still occurs in areas that are in the pathway towards malaria elimination, and can be associated with detrimental health effects for the neonate. It also highlights the need in very low transmission areas of not only maintaining, but increasing awareness of the problem and developing surveillance strategies, based on population risk, to detect the infection especially in this vulnerable group of the population.

Item ID:	67737
Item Type:	Article (Case Study)
ISSN:	1475-2875
Copyright Information:	© 2012 Castellanos et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use,distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Date Deposited:	25 Aug 2021 01:24
FoR Codes:	42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4202 Epidemiology > 420207 Major global burdens of disease @ 100%
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