1. Plasmodium vivax malaria acquired in far north Queensland.
- Author
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Brookes DL, Ritchie SA, van den Hurk AF, Fielding JR, and Loewenthal MR
- Subjects
- Adult, Animals, Humans, Male, Queensland, Anopheles, Insect Bites and Stings, Malaria, Vivax transmission
- Abstract
In February 1996, vivax malaria was diagnosed in a man from a remote community in far north Queensland who had not visited a malarious area for the past 19 years. Microscopy and DNA studies of blood from other residents of the community did not identify a source of infection. It was suspected the infection was transmitted by mosquitoes from a neighbour who had been infected in Papua New Guinea, but whose blood was not available for DNA tests.
- Published
- 1997
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