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Volume 31, Number 7—July 2025

Research Letter

Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria in Persons Returning to Israel from Thailand, 2023

Yael Paran, Ami Neuberger, Muna Massarwa, Maisam Amar, Julia Vainer, Moran Szwarcwort Cohen, Ohad Shalom, Shirly Elbaz, Maya Davidovich, Oscar David Kirstein, and Tamar GrossmanComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel (Y. Paran); Division of Internal Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel (A. Neuberger, M. Massarwa); Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa (A. Neuberger, M. Amar); Infectious Disease Unit, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa (M. Amar); Public Health Laboratories–Jerusalem, Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel (J. Vainer, S. Elbaz, M. Davidovich, O.D. Kirstein, T. Grossman); Microbiology Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa (M.S. Cohen); Microbiology Laboratory, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv (O. Shalom)

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Figure 1

Travel locations of persons with Plasmodium knowlesi malaria returning to Israel from Thailand, 2023. Patient 1 might represent a sentinel case of human P. knowlesi infection acquired in northern Thailand. Patient 2 visited Koh Phayam Island in Ranong Province in southern Thailand, a recognized endemic area near the Malaysia border. Map created with ArcGIS Pro software version 3.3.2 (ESRI, https://www.esri.com).

Figure 1. Travel locations of persons with Plasmodium knowlesi malaria returning to Israel from Thailand, 2023. Patient 1 might represent a sentinel case of human P. knowlesi infection acquired in northern Thailand. Patient 2 visited Koh Phayam Island in Ranong Province in southern Thailand, a recognized endemic area near the Malaysia border. Map created with ArcGIS Pro software version 3.3.2 (ESRI, https://www.esri.com).

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