Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2025)

Fatal Mixed Plasmodium Infection in Traveler Returning to Colombia from Comoros Islands, 2024

  • Leidy J. Medina-Lozano,
  • Sergio Andrés Bolívar Lozano,
  • Carolina Guavita,
  • Milena Camargo,
  • Luz Helena Patiño,
  • Juan David Ramírez,
  • Diana Carolina Gutiérrez-González,
  • Álvaro A. Faccini-Martínez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3101.241491
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 31, no. 1
pp. 178 – 180

Abstract

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During 2014–2022, only Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases were reported in the Comoro Islands. We report a fatal case of mixed Plasmodium malaria infection in a traveler returning from the Comoros to Colombia in 2024, highlighting the need to strengthen laboratory detection and identification of Plasmodium spp. in sub-Saharan Africa.

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