Letter to the editor: Is malaria re-emerging in southern Europe? Cryptic Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Malta, October 2018

Raquel Medialdea-Carrera; Tanya Melillo; Charmaine Gauci; Graziella Rocco; Maria Louise Borg

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.50.1800650

Letter to the editor: Is malaria re-emerging in southern Europe? Cryptic Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Malta, October 2018

Euro Surveill. 2018 Dec;23(50):1800650. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.50.1800650.

Authors

Raquel Medialdea-Carrera^{1

2}, Tanya Melillo¹, Charmaine Gauci¹, Graziella Rocco¹, Maria Louise Borg¹

Affiliations

¹ Infectious Disease Control Unit; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Directorate, Msida, Malta.
² European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.

PMID: 30563595
PMCID: PMC6299509
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.50.1800650

No abstract available

Keywords: Anopheles; Italy; Malta; Plasmodium; Plasmodium falciparum; infection control; malaria; outbreaks; parasitic infections; surveillance; vector control; vector-borne infections.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Europe
Humans
Italy
Malaria*
Malaria, Falciparum*
Male
Malta