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Malaria in Laconia, Greece, then and now: a 2500-year-old pattern
Author(s) -
Antonis A. Kousoulis,
KalliopiStavroula Chatzigeorgiou,
Kostas Danis,
Gregory Tsoucalas,
Nikos Vakalis,
Stefanos Bonovas,
Sotirios Tsiodras
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2012.09.013
Subject(s) - malaria , outbreak , geography , vector (molecular biology) , plasmodium vivax , public health , socioeconomics , anopheles , environmental health , population , plasmodium falciparum , biology , medicine , virology , biochemistry , nursing , sociology , immunology , gene , recombinant dna
Malaria is still an active threat in many areas of the world. In Greece, in an area of the Laconia region, malaria epidemics have been recorded since as early as the 5(th) century BC. A local outbreak of malaria was reported in the summer/autumn of 2011.

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