Plasmodium vivax mono-infection as main cause of severe malaria in a co-endemic region for P. vivax and P. falciparum in the Peruvian Amazon

• Autores: Moreno-Gutierrez, Diamantina, Casapía, Martin, Quino-Ascurra, Higinio, Celis-Salinas, J., Quiroz-Morey, A., Barbosa-Chichipe, José Luis, Llanos-Cuentas, Alejandro, Beutels, Philippe, Speybroeck, Niko, Rosas-Aguirre, Angel
• Formato: objeto de conferencia
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
• Repositorio: UPCH-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.upch.edu.pe:20.500.12866/12729
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/12729
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Plasmodium vivax; mono-infection; malaria; P. vivax; P. falciparum; Peruvian Amazon

Loreto, covering 28% of Peru's territory with around one million inhabitants, is the department most affected by malaria. In 2017, it reported 53163 malaria cases (about 90% of total cases in the country), of which 75% and 25% were caused by P. vivax and P. falciparum, respectively. Recent reports in South-American co-endemic countries for both species indicated that severe malaria (SM) caused by P. vivax is not rare.