Table 1 Reported cases of non-imported malaria in Spain
From: Non-imported malaria in non-endemic countries: a review of cases in Spain
Event classification | Year of diagnosis | Plasmodium identified | Cases | Relevant epidemiological data | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced malaria | 2010 | P. vivax | 1 | The patient lived in an area with Anopheles atroparvus. No reported cases of imported malaria in previous years | [18] |
2014 | P. vivax | 1 | The strains of both the patient and of a case with malaria that had travelled to Pakistan matched by molecular typing. No anopheline vector was detected in the area | [19] | |
Airport malaria | 1984 | P. falciparum | 1 | The patient visited a family member who lived less than 6 km from Madrid airport | [20] |
2001 | P. ovale | 1 | The patient lived close to two international airports (4 and 18 km distance, respectively) | [21] | |
Congenital malaria | 1999 | P. falciparum | 1 | The mother was an expatriate and has been living in Equatorial Guinea until the 8 month of pregnancy | [22] |
2007 | P. vivax | 1 | The mother, asymptomatic, have arrived to Spain a year before from Senegal | ||
2009 | P. falciparum | 1 | The mother originally came from Equatorial Guinea | ||
2011 | P. falciparum | 1 | The mother was an expatriate who had come from Equatorial Guinea when she was in the 6th month of pregnancy | ||
2014 | P. falciparum | 1 | The mother have travelled to Equatorial Guinea to visit her relatives | [19] | |
Induced malaria | |||||
Transfusional | 1971 | P. vivax | 54 | 43 cases received full blood transfusions +11 cases received plasmapheresis. Origen: a blood bank whose donors have different African origin: Algeria, Morocco and Equatorial Guinea | [23] |
1987 | P. falciparum | 1 | The donor have travelled to Democratic Republic of Congo | [24] | |
1997 | P. falciparum | 1 | The possible donor was a Central African expatriate who have travelled several times to his country | [25] | |
2002 | P. falciparum | 1 | No known donor | [26] | |
Post-transplant | 2005 | P. vivax | 3 | The donor had lived in Colombia until the year before. One symptomatic recipient and two with positive smears | [27] |
2005 | P. vivax | 2 | Bolivian donor. Both recipients had symptoms | ||
2013 | P. falciparum | 3 | The donor had arrived from Mali a year before. Two symptomatic recipients and one with a positive antigen test | [28] | |
2014 | P. ovale | 1 | The donor had travelled to Equatorial Guinea | [19] | |
Parenteral | 1984 | P. vivax | 5 | Needles shared with people who had travelled to Equatorial Guinea | [30] |
1986 | P. falciparum | 2 | Needles shared with people who had travelled to Equatorial Guinea | [31] | |
Other nosocomial | 1978 | P. falciparum | 1 | A nurse was infected by a malarial patient | [32] |
1998 | P. falciparum | 1 | The case shared room with and nursing care patient with malaria | [33] | |
2010 | P. falciparum | 1 | The case shared room and nursing care with a patient with malaria | [34] | |
2011 | P. falciparum | 1 | The case shared room with a patient with malaria. Molecular typing in both patients matched | [35] | |