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. Download MP3  Length: 1:27 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 ER - End of Reference