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An outbreak report of the two autochthonous cases of airport malaria in Belgium in 2020

2021-10-02

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We report an outbreak investigation of two fatal cases of autochthonous Plasmodium falciparum that occurred in Belgium in September 2020. Various hypotheses of potential source of infection were investigated. Based on the collected information, the most likely route of transmission was through an infectious exotic Anopheles mosquito that arrived via the international airport of Brussels or the Military airport Mel...

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Literature Corpus work: c9dedcf2-1a14-532e-8c33-1eb3b1642743
DOI: 10.1101/2021.09.29.21263834

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