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Plasmodium vivax PCR genotyping of the first malaria case imported from South Korea into Japan.
Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy - 1 Feb 2009
Iwagami Moritoshi, Itoda Ichiro, Hwang Seung-Young, Kho Weon-Gyu, Kano Shigeyuki
Abstract excerpt
Although indigenous malaria was successfully eradicated in Japan in 1959, malaria remains one of the most important health concerns in the control of imported infectious diseases. However, in South Korea, the re-emergence of indigenous vivax malaria was reported in 1993 in the Demilitarized Zone (the border region with North Korea), from where a vivax malaria case was imported into Japan in 2002. In this study,...
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