TY - JOUR AU - Nowak, Szymon AU - Zmora, Paweł AU - Pielok, Łukasz AU - Kuszel, Łukasz AU - Kierzek, Ryszard AU - Stefaniak, Jerzy AU - Paul, Małgorzata T1 - Case of Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria in Poland Linked to Travel in Southeast Asia T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 9 SP - 1772 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report a case of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria imported to central Europe from Southeast Asia. Laboratory suspicion of P. knowlesi infection was based on the presence of atypical developmental forms of the parasite in Giemsa-stained microscopic smears. We confirmed and documented the clinical diagnosis by molecular biology techniques. KW - malaria KW - Plasmodium knowlesi KW - Sumatra KW - travel medicine KW - imported diseases KW - parasites KW - Poland KW - Southeast Asia KW - Indonesia KW - central Europe DO - 10.3201/eid2509.190445 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/9/19-0445_article ER - End of Reference