| imported malaria in the bronx: review of 51 cases recorded from 1986 to 1991. | the cases of 51 patients with malaria seen at the albert einstein college of medicine hospitals from january 1986 to june 1991 are reviewed. thirty-five patients acquired infection on journeys to their country of origin. of these 35 patients, 83% of whom had lived in the united states for > or = 2 years, only 17% received antimalarial prophylaxis. ten of the 51 patients were born and raised in the united states, and 70% received prophylaxis (p < .01). six of the 51 patients were visitors to the ... | 1992 | 1445975 |
| malaria--the mime revisited: fifteen more years of experience at a new york city teaching hospital. | purpose and patients: a previous review of the new york hospital experience with malaria during 1968 to 1975 summarized clinical and parasitologic features in 24 travelers and highlighted deficiencies in both chemoprophylaxis and diagnosis. to extend this original study, we describe 86 patients with malaria seen at the same hospital during the subsequent 15 years. results: eighty patients were infected with a single plasmodium species, and 60% had plasmodium falciparum infection primarily acquir ... | 1992 | 1524074 |
| malaria in new york city. iv. 1960-1971. | | 1974 | 4590498 |
| mosquito-transmitted malaria in new york city, 1993. | in august, 1993, 3 cases of plasmodium falciparum malaria in people without recent travel histories or bloodborne exposure were reported in new york city. an epidemiological investigation confirmed the absence of risk factors for acquisition of malaria in two cases. the third case could not be definitively classified as locally acquired malaria because the patient had travelled to thailand two years before malaria was diagnosed. the 3 individuals lived in separate houses in the same neighbourhoo ... | 1995 | 7658873 |
| monitoring of intravenous quinidine infusion in the treatment of plasmodium falciparum malaria. | to report a case of plasmodium falciparum malaria in which intravenous quinidine was used, resulting in a prolonged qt interval. | 1995 | 7711344 |
| indigenous plasmodium falciparum malaria in queens, ny. | cryptic/sporadic malaria is rare in the united states. we describe a patient who developed malaria in new york city without any known contact with, or travel to, a malaria-endemic area. the patient presented with symptoms of gastroenteritis. later, she developed hemolysis and hepatosplenomegaly, and plasmodium falciparum was found in blood smears. possible sources of malaria could be an indigenous infected mosquito or a transported infected mosquito from a local international airport. | 1995 | 7748055 |
| malaria surveillance in new york city: 1991-1996. | the transmission of malaria has increased in recent years in many countries where it was once eradicated or under control, and malaria remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the developing world. imported cases of malaria have been increasing in new york city and throughout the united states during the past decade. the new york city department of health has modified its malaria surveillance program in order to improve the assessment of diagnosis and treatment of malaria in n ... | 1998 | 9531658 |
| malaria: 30 years of experience at a new york city teaching hospital. | two previous reviews summarized the new york hospital experience with 110 cases of malaria from 1968 to 1990. we have extended these studies to include 59 cases of malaria seen from 1991 to 1999 and analyze trends over the past 30 years. plasmodium falciparum remains the most common species, 38 (64%) of the 59 cases, with the majority of them, 34 (89%) of 38 cases, being acquired in africa. of the 59 cases, 22 (37%) were immigrants living in the united states who had visited their countries of o ... | 2004 | 15100455 |
| malaria due to plasmodium falciparum in new york. | | 1945 | 21003953 |
| healthcare-associated transmission of plasmodium falciparum in new york city. | a patient with no risk factors for malaria was hospitalized in new york city with plasmodium falciparum infection. after investigating all potential sources of infection, we concluded the patient had been exposed to malaria while hospitalized less than 3 weeks earlier. molecular genotyping implicated patient-to-patient transmission in a hospital setting. infect. control hosp. epidemiol. 2015;37(1):113-115. | 2016 | 26498730 |