TY - JOUR
AU - Rojo-Marcos, Gerardo
AU - Rubio-Muñoz, José Miguel
AU - Ramírez-Olivencia, Germán
AU - García-Bujalance, Silvia
AU - Elcuaz-Romano, Rosa
AU - Díaz-Menéndez, Marta
AU - Calderón, María
AU - García-Bermejo, Isabel
AU - Ruiz-Giardín, José Manuel
AU - Merino-Fernández, Francisco Jesús
AU - Torrús-Tendero, Diego
AU - Delgado-Iribarren, Alberto
AU - Ribell-Bachs, Mónica
AU - Arévalo-Serrano, Juan
AU - Cuadros-González, Juan
T1 - Comparison of Imported Plasmodium ovale curtisi and P. ovale wallikeri Infections among Patients in Spain, 2005–2011
T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal
PY - 2014
VL - 20
IS - 3
SP - 417
SN - 1080-6059
AB -
Sequencing data from Plasmodium ovale genotypes co-circulating in multiple countries support the hypothesis that P. ovale curtisi and P. ovale wallikeri are 2 separate species. We conducted a multicenter, retrospective, comparative study in Spain of 21 patients who had imported P. ovale curtisi infections and 14 who had imported P. ovale wallikeri infections confirmed by PCR and gene sequencing during June 2005–December 2011. The only significant finding was more severe thrombocytopenia among patients with P. ovale wallikeri infection than among those with P. ovale curtisi infection (p = 0.031). However, we also found nonsignificant trends showing that patients with P. ovale wallikeri infection had shorter time from arrival in Spain to onset of symptoms, lower level of albumin, higher median maximum core temperature, and more markers of hemolysis than did those with P. ovale curtisi infection. Larger, prospective studies are needed to confirm these findings.
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KW - Plasmodium ovale curtisi
KW - Plasmodium ovale wallikeri
KW - imported malaria
KW - epidemiology
KW - clinical features
KW - Spain
KW - malaria
KW - thrombocytopenia
KW - parasites
KW - vector-borne infections
DO - 10.3201/eid2003.130745
UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/3/13-0745_article
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