title: [The investigation of malaria cases in Manisa between 2008-2012].
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%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.
authors.affiliation: İzmir Katip Çelebi Üniversitesi, Atatürk Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Tıbbi Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, İzmir, Türkiye. aaksoygokmen@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Ayşegül
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aksoy Gökmen
authors.forename: Bayram
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pektaş
authors.forename: Koray
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Öncel
authors.forename: Oğuz Alp
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Özdemir
authors.forename: İbrahim
authors.initials: İ
authors.lastname: Çavuş
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Özbilgin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D016778:Malaria, Falciparum / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission; D016780:Malaria, Vivax / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission; D008297:Male; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010966:Plasmodium vivax / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014195:Travel; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology