[The investigation of malaria cases in Manisa between 2008-2012].
TURKISH JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY 2014;
38:151-4. [PMID:
25308450 DOI:
10.5152/tpd.2014.3466]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE
We aimed to determine the malaria prevalence in a 5-year period by using the data obtained from Malaria Control Center associated with the Manisa Province Public Health Office Infectious Diseases Department in Manisa between 2008 and 2012.
METHODS
The data were evaluated according to age, gender, type of parasite, and the places of travel.
RESULTS
In this study, six imported malaria cases were detected in blood samples from 86,955 patients by the Malaria Control Center, associated with the Manisa Province Public Health Office Infectious Diseases Department, with active and passive surveillance between 2008 and 2012. Positivity rate was 0.007%.
CONCLUSION
Imported malaria cases, due to increasing international travel and migration, have a serious endemic potential based on unsuitable or insufficient prophylaxis, although malaria cases have decreased notably by successful eradication studies in Turkey. This paper was prepared especially in order to point out this subject, because all of the cases were imported.
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