TY - JOUR AU - Cuadros, Juan AU - Calvente, Maria José AU - Benito, Agustin AU - Arévalo, Juan AU - Calero, Maria Angeles AU - Segura, Javier AU - Rubio, Jose Miguel T1 - Plasmodium ovale Malaria Acquired in Central Spain T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2002 VL - 8 IS - 12 SP - 1506 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We describe a case of locally acquired Plasmodium ovale malaria in Spain. The patient was a Spanish woman who had never traveled out of Spain and had no other risk factors for malaria. Because patients with malaria may never have visited endemic areas, occasional transmission of malaria to European hosts is a diagnostic and clinical challenge. KW - Malaria KW - epidemiology KW - transmission KW - prevention KW - diagnosis KW - Spain KW - anopheles KW - polymerase chain reaction KW - airport KW - human DO - 10.3201/eid0812.020105 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/12/02-0105_article ER - End of Reference