Airport malaria: report of a case and a brief review of the literature.
We report a case of Plasmodium vivax malaria in a patient who had not visited an endemic area. The ways in which malaria can be transmitted in non-endemic areas are discussed. By the elimination of other possibilities, the diagnosis of airport malaria was made. Airport malaria is a rare and often initially overlooked diagnosis. Since 1969, some 89 cases of airport malaria have been reported.
Thang
H D
HD
Department of Internal Medicine, St. Lucas Andreas Hospital, Jan Tooropstraat 164, 1061 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. oanhthang@hotmail.com
Elsas
R M
RM
Veenstra
J
J
D000328:Adult; D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D000818:Animals; D009033:Culicidae; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007299:Insect Bites and Stings; D008288:Malaria / Q000635:transmission; D016780:Malaria, Vivax / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission*; D009426:Netherlands; D014195:Travel