TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Malaria
A1  - Laufer, Miriam K.
A2  - Shah, Samir S.
A2  - Kemper, Alex R.
A2  - Ratner, Adam J.
PY  - 2019
T2  - Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, 2e
AB  - Malaria  is  a  leading  cause  of  childhood  morbidity  and  mortality  worldwide,  with  approximately  212  million  cases  occurring  in  2015.  The  burden  of  this  disease  is  borne  largely  by  children  in  sub-Saharan  Africa,  where  approximately  90%  of  infections  and  70%  of  malaria-associated  deaths  occur.1,2  In  the  United  States,  local  malaria  transmission,  which  was  once  endemic,  has  been  extremely  rare  since  the  1950s.3  However,  American  physicians  continue  to  encounter  patients  with  malaria,  mostly  immigrants,  refugees,  returned  travelers,  and  military  personnel,  who  acquired  their  infections  in  endemic  areas.  An  average  of  1700  malaria  cases  and  13  related  deaths  occur  in  the  United  States  every  year.  Most  of  the  cases  were  acquired  in  sub-Saharan  Africa  and  caused  by  Plasmodium  falciparum,  although  Plasmodium  species  infections  are  imported  from  other  malaria-endemic  regions,  as  well.4  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1157324376
ER  -