Runway malaria in a British serviceman.
'Runway malaria' is a clinical entity first described in 1990 and refers to a patient who has contracted malaria, in whom the only possible exposure has been when the aircraft in which they were travelling has landed transiently in a malarious zone. We describe such a case in a British Serviceman travelling from the South Atlantic to Germany, who acquired malaria in West Africa.
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Royal Air Force Institute of Pathology and Tropical Medicine, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
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D000328:Adult; D000401:Aircraft; D005714:Gambia; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000635:transmission*; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel; D014195:Travel