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The article describes the case of locally acquired mosquito-transmitted Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in a patient in Maryland in August 2023. It discusses the patient's medical history, results of the patient's laboratory tests, the diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum, treatment given to the patient and the implementation of active case finding to identify other malaria cases in Maryland following the confirmation of malaria in the patient.

Competing Interests: All authors have completed and submitted the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. Alison D. Ridpath reports stock ownership in Johnson & Johnson, Abbvie, Inc., BioNTech SE-ADR, Antigen, Inc., Protagonist Therapeutics, Immune, Inc., Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Pfizer, Inc., and Merck & Co, Inc. Jon Eric Tongren reports stock ownership in CS Health Corp., and Merck & Co, Inc. David Torpey reports support from the American Public Health Laboratories Association for Validation of Molecular Identification Methods for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. No other potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.