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Retrospective Analysis of Cases with Imported Malaria in Hatay Province of Turkey: Seventy-Five Cases in Ten Years

Selma İlkay ŞahinMehmet ÇabalakTayibe BalSabahattin OcakYusuf ÖnlenGülnaz Çulha
Published in: Turkiye parazitolojii dergisi (2019)
Despite increasing incidence of imported malaria in our country in recent years, there is a decrease in this number in our region. Since Turkey is one of the countries with the highest prevalence of imported malaria in the world, patients with fever and thrombocytopenia should be questioned whether or not they had a history of travel to malaria-endemic area.
Keyphrases
  • plasmodium falciparum
  • risk factors