Retrospective clinical case series study in 2017 identifies Plasmodium knowlesi as most frequent Plasmodium species in returning travellers from Thailand to Germany.

This study highlights the importance of this Plasmodium species in this patient subgroup. Whenever malaria is suspected in a returning traveller from Thailand, P. knowlesi should be taken into consideration and a differential PCR be executed as currently the unequivocal diagnosis of P. knowlesi is based on nuclear amplification techniques.
PMID: 30043723 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Euro Surveill - July 1, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Froeschl G, Nothdurft HD, von Sonnenburg F, Bretzel G, Polanetz R, Kroidl I, Seilmaier M, Orth HM, Jordan S, Kremsner P, Vygen-Bonnet S, Pritsch M, Hoelscher M, Rothe C Tags: Euro Surveill Source Type: research