Case report: French West Indies - a tourist destination at risk for Plasmodium falciparum transmission?

Trop Med Int Health. 1999 Apr;4(4):255-6. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.00390.x.

Abstract

We report a case of P. falciparum infection observed in Paris and presumably acquired in Guadeloupe, a French Caribbean island where malaria has been considered to be eradicated since 1970.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antimalarials / therapeutic use
  • Guadeloupe
  • Health Personnel
  • Humans
  • Malaria, Falciparum / drug therapy
  • Malaria, Falciparum / prevention & control
  • Malaria, Falciparum / transmission*
  • Male
  • Paris
  • Risk Factors
  • Travel*

Substances

  • Antimalarials