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Plasmodium vivax malaria acquired in far north Queensland
Author(s) -
Brookes Dianne L,
Ritchie Scott A,
Hurk Andrew F,
Fielding Julie R,
Loewenthal Mark R
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.tb138727.x
Subject(s) - malaria , vivax malaria , plasmodium vivax , new guinea , blood smear , diagnosis of malaria , virology , blood film , medicine , geography , biology , plasmodium falciparum , immunology , ethnology , history
In February 1996, vivax malaria was diagnosed in a man from a remote community in far north Queensland who had not visited a malarious area for the past 19 years. Microscopy and DNA studies of blood from other residents of the community did not identify a source of infection. It was suspected the infection was transmitted by mosquitoes from a neighbour who had been infected in Papua New Guinea, but whose blood was not available for DNA tests.