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Airport malaria in Cairns
Author(s) -
Jenkin Grant A,
Brown Graham V,
Ritchie Scott A,
Hanna Jeffrey N
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1997.tb122319.x
Subject(s) - malaria , plasmodium vivax , vivax malaria , anopheles , geography , virology , biology , plasmodium falciparum , immunology
We report a patient with Plasmodium vivax malaria that was acquired in Cairns in October 1996. Rather than being “introduced” (i.e., derived from an imported case), we believe this is likely to have been a case of “airport malaria” (i.e., acquired from an infected mosquito imported in an aircraft). It is, to our knowledge, the first report of airport malaria in Australia.