Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Surveillance Unit Sanitary Management Areas Campo de Gibraltar East and West, Algeciras, Spain.
Surveillance and Occupational Health Service, General Directorate of Public Health and Pharmaceutical Regulation, Sevilla, Spain.
Euro Surveill. 2022 Nov;27(46). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.46.2200786.
We describe a non-imported malaria case reported in January 2022 in Campo de Gibraltar and the investigations by local public health authorities to identify the transmission mechanism and subsequent measures to prevent local transmission. Vector transmission, parenteral transmission, airport malaria, and imported malaria were ruled out. No clear mechanism of transmission was identified. The most probable cause was a hospital-acquired infection since the case was admitted to hospital at the same time as a case of imported malaria.
我们描述了 2022 年 1 月在直布罗陀地区报告的一例非输入性疟疾病例,以及当地公共卫生当局为确定传播机制和随后采取的防止本地传播措施所进行的调查。已排除媒介传播、母婴垂直传播、机场疟疾和输入性疟疾。未确定明确的传播机制。最有可能的原因是医院获得性感染,因为该病例与一例输入性疟疾同时住院。