Imported malaria in Brest hospitals from 1981 to 1990
Leostic, C.; Masure, O.; Bietrix, P.; Le Flohic, A.M.; Chastel, C.
Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique 85(5): 365-367
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-9085 PMID: 1292795 Document Number: 393349
From 1981 to 1990, 96 confirmed hospital cases of imported malaria occurred in Brest. An important increasing of the annual number was observed in 1986. A high proportion of infection was due to Plasmodium falciparum, mainly from black Africa. Most of the patients was French young men, without or with inadequate chemoprophylaxis. Every case of malaria due to P. falciparum appeared during the 2 months following their return from an endemic area. Two patients had a clinical profile of visceral evolutive malaria and 5 a cerebral malaria. Three patients died.