Investigation of an airport-associated cluster of falciparum malaria in Frankfurt, Germany, 2022.

airport emerging infectious diseases imported infectious diseases malaria molecular analysis

Journal

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
ISSN: 1560-7917
Titre abrégé: Euro Surveill
Pays: Sweden
ID NLM: 100887452

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Feb 2024
Historique:
medline: 2 2 2024
pubmed: 2 2 2024
entrez: 2 2 2024
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Airport malaria is uncommon but increasing in Europe and often difficult to diagnose. We describe the clinical, epidemiological and environmental investigations of a cluster of airport malaria cases and measures taken in response. Three Frankfurt International Airport employees without travel histories to malaria-endemic areas were diagnosed with

Identifiants

DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.5.2300298 PMID: 38304950
pubmed: 38304950
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.5.2300298
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Auteurs

Johanna Kessel (J)

Goethe University, University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Infectious Diseases, Frankfurt, Germany.

Anna Rosanas-Urgell (A)

Unit of Malariology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.

Tobias Dingwerth (T)

Medical Center Frankfurt, Medical Services & Health Management Lufthansa Group, Frankfurt, Germany.

Udo Goetsch (U)

Municipal Health Protection Authority, Frankfurt, Germany.

Jonas Haller (J)

Goethe University, Department of Integrative parasitology and animal physiology, Frankfurt, Germany.
Municipal Health Protection Authority, Frankfurt, Germany.

Ralph Huits (R)

Department of Infectious Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy.

Johanna H Kattenberg (JH)

Unit of Malariology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.

Anna Meinecke (A)

Hannover Medical School, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hannover, Germany.

Pieter Monsieurs (P)

Unit of Malariology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.

Michael Sroka (M)

Fraport AG, Medical Services, Frankfurt, Germany.

Torsten Witte (T)

Hannover Medical School, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hannover, Germany.

Timo Wolf (T)

Goethe University, University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Infectious Diseases, Frankfurt, Germany.

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