title: Autochthonous Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Greek schoolgirl of the Attica region.
abstract: In August 2009, one case of autochthonous malaria due to Plasmodium vivax was diagnosed in Greece in a young woman residing in the Eastern Attica region. The source of infection could not be identified. No other autochthonous malaria cases have been described in the Attica region since 1974. This was a sporadic case with no evidence of further local transmission, and no more cases have been reported in Attica up to now, two years later.
authors.affiliation: 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, A, Fleming General Hospital, 14 25th March St,, Melissia, Athens GR-15127, Greece. ch-loupa@hol.gr
authors.forename: Chariclia V
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Loupa
authors.forename: Konstantina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tzanetou
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kotsantis
authors.forename: Stylianos
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Panopoulos
authors.forename: Moyssis
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lelekis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D016780:Malaria, Vivax / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008853:Microscopy; D018512:Parasitemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D010966:Plasmodium vivax / Q000302:isolation & purification*