Status of imported malaria in a control zone of the United Arab Emirates bordering an area of unstable malaria.
A concerted malaria eradication programme in the United Arab Emirates has reduced local transmission to only a very few small foci in the country. The Al Ain district is now a consolidation zone. However, transmission across the undemarcated border with Oman continues. Malaria imported by the large immigrant work force from major disease endemic areas remains a large burden. An added threat is the appearance of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum principally from Sudan and Pakistan but increasingly amongst Omani cases seen in the hospitals and clinics in Al Ain. The implications of re-introduction of malaria and the establishment of chloroquine resistance, particularly for non-immune residents and visitors, are emphasized.
Dar
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Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain.
Bayoumi
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al Karmi
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Shalabi
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Beidas
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Hussein
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MM
D000818:Animals; D002738:Chloroquine / Q000494:pharmacology; D004351:Drug Resistance; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology / Q000635:transmission*; D016778:Malaria, Falciparum / Q000635:transmission; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000187:drug effects; D014479:United Arab Emirates / Q000453:epidemiology
D002738:Chloroquine