TY - JOUR AU - Pacheco, César AU - Moreno, Jorge AU - Herrera, Flor T1 - Molecular Detection and Species Determination of Malaria Parasites, Venezuela T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 2 SP - 355 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In southeastern Venezuela, malaria cases have increased since 2013. We found that 46% of 352 blood samples from symptomatic patients in 1 municipality tested positive for Plasmodium spp. In addition, the number of cases increased by 10 times in 4 years (2014–2017) and by 3 times in 1 year (2016–2017). KW - Plasmodium spp KW - Venezuela KW - malaria KW - vector-borne infections KW - parasites KW - Plasmodium falciparum KW - Plasmodium vivax KW - molecular detection DO - 10.3201/eid2502.181279 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/2/18-1279_article ER - End of Reference