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Volume 21, Number 5—May 2015
Research

Molecular Epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Outbreak, Tumbes, Peru, 2010–2012

G. Christian BaldevianoComments to Author , Sheila Akinyi Okoth, Nancy Arrospide, Rommell V. Gonzalez, Juan F. Sánchez, Silvia Macedo, Silvia Conde, L. Lorena Tapia, Carola Salas, Dionicia Gamboa, Yeni Herrera, Kimberly A. Edgel, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, and Andrés G. Lescano
Author affiliations: US Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Callao, Peru (G.C. Baldeviano, J.F. Sánchez, S. Macedo, L.L. Tapia, C. Salas, K.A. Edgel, A.G. Lescano); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (S. Akinyi Okoth, V. Udhayakumar); Instituto Nacional de Salud del Peru, Lima, Peru (N. Arrospide); Direccion Regional de Salud de Tumbes, Tumbes, Peru (R.V. Gonzalez, S. Conde); Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima (D. Gamboa); Ministry of Health of Peru, Lima (Y. Herrera)

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Figure 1

Peru, showing the Department of Tumbes, the city of Iquitos, and the Requena District located in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon (A) and the 13 districts in the Department of Tumbes (B). Gray shading indicates the 4 districts (Tumbes, Corrales, Aguas Verdes, and San Juan de la Virgen) where the 210 cases were reported during the 2010–2012 outbreak of Plasmodium falciparum malaria; blue lines indicate travel routes by river; red line indicates travel route by road.

Figure 1. Peru, showing the department of Tumbes (black shading), the city of Iquitos, and the Requena district located in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon (A) and the 13 districts in the department of Tumbes (B). Gray shading indicates the 4 districts (Tumbes, Corrales, Aguas Verdes, and San Juan de la Virgen) where the 210 cases were reported during the 2010–2012 outbreak of Plasmodium falciparum malaria; blue lines indicate travel routes by river; red line indicates travel route by road.

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