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Volume 27, Number 2—February 2021
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis

Plasmodium ovale wallikeri and P. ovale curtisi Infections and Diagnostic Approaches to Imported Malaria, France, 2013–2018

Valentin JosteComments to Author , Justine Bailly, Véronique Hubert, Cécile Pauc, Mathieu Gendrot, Emilie Guillochon, Marylin Madamet, Marc Thellier, Eric Kendjo, Nicolas Argy, Bruno Pradines, Sandrine Houzé, and on behalf of the French National Reference Center for Imported Malaria Study Group1
Author affiliations: Centre National de Référence du Paludisme, Paris, France (V. Joste, J. Bailly, V. Hubert, C. Pauc, N. Argy, S. Houzé); Université de Paris, Paris (N. Argy, S. Houzé); Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Paris (V. Joste, N. Argy, S. Houzé); Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Marseille, France (M. Gendrot, M. Madamet, B. Pradines); Aix–Marseille Université, Marseille (M. Gendrot, M. Madamet, B. Pradines); Instituts Hospitalo–Universitaires Méditerranée Infection, Marseille (M. Gendrot, M. Madamet, B. Pradines); Centre National de Référence du Paludisme, Marseille (M. Madamet, B. Pradines); Sorbonne Université, Paris, France (M. Thellier, E. Kendjo)

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Figure 1

Flow-chart of the retrospective study analyzing characteristics of Plasmodium ovale wallikeri and P. ovale curtisi infections treated in France during January 2013–December 2018. All reported P. ovale infection cases were confirmed with microscopy and PCR analysis, and co-infections were excluded. A total of 59 P. ovale isolates initially misdiagnosed by the hospital correspondent were added. A total of 677 P. ovale infection cases were included in the study.

Figure 1. Flow-chart of the retrospective study analyzing characteristics of Plasmodium ovale wallikeri and P. ovale curtisi infections treated in France during January 2013–December 2018. All reported P. ovale infection cases were confirmed with microscopy and PCR analysis, and co-infections were excluded. A total of 59 P. ovale isolates initially misdiagnosed by the hospital correspondent were added. A total of 677 P. ovale infection cases were included in the study.

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1Additional members of the French National Reference Center for Imported Malaria Study Group who contributed data are listed at the end of this article.

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