Chia David, Moreno Jorge O, Aronin Steven I, Suarez Rassull, Virata Michael D, Igwe Chinedu A, Quentzel Howard, Sadigh Majid
Yale Primary Care Residency Program and Waterbury Hospital, 64 Robbins Street, Waterbury, CT 06708, USA.
Yale-New Haven Hospital, St. Raphael Campus, 1450 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
IDCases. 2014 Apr 2;1(2):26-8. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2014.03.003. eCollection 2014.
In 2010, there were roughly 219 million cases of malaria reported worldwide resulting in an estimated 660,600 deaths [1]. In contrast, the total number of cases according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States (USA) was only 1691 [2]. Of those, 1688 were cases of imported malaria [2]. This is the highest number of cases reported in U.S. since 1980 [2]. Here, we describe a case of imported malaria and conduct a retrospective case series at four Connecticut (CT) hospitals in order to describe the demographics of imported malaria and to identify potential barriers to timely diagnosis and treatment.
2010年，全球报告的疟疾病例约有2.19亿例，估计导致660,600人死亡[1]。相比之下，美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）报告的美国疟疾病例总数仅为1691例[2]。其中，1688例为输入性疟疾病例[2]。这是自1980年以来美国报告的病例数最多的一年[2]。在此，我们描述一例输入性疟疾病例，并在康涅狄格州（CT）的四家医院进行回顾性病例系列研究，以描述输入性疟疾的人口统计学特征，并确定及时诊断和治疗的潜在障碍。
