Open AccessImported malaria in Finland, 2001
Author(s) -
Heli Siikamäki
Publication year - 2002
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.06.17.02126-en
Subject(s) - malaria , vivax malaria , plasmodium falciparum , plasmodium vivax , medicine , plasmodium ovale , demography , geography , virology , immunology , sociology
Thirty-eight cases of malaria were diagnosed in Finland in 2001. Plasmodium falciparum was isolated in 16 cases, P. vivax in 16 cases, and P. ovale in six cases.Twenty-two patients (58%) including all patients with P. falciparum malaria were infected in Africa. Eleven patients were infected in West Africa, six in East Africa and five in central or southern Africa. Eight of the patients with P. vivax malaria were infected in India and Pakistan.