Consequences of Venezuela's massive migration crisis on imported malaria in Colombia, 2016-2018

Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales; José Antonio Suárez; Alejandro Risquez; Wilmer E Villamil-Gómez; Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.02.004

Consequences of Venezuela's massive migration crisis on imported malaria in Colombia, 2016-2018

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2019 Mar-Apr:28:98-99. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.02.004. Epub 2019 Feb 23.

Authors

Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales¹, José Antonio Suárez², Alejandro Risquez³, Wilmer E Villamil-Gómez⁴, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi⁵

Affiliations

¹ Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases API, Panama City, Panama. Electronic address: arodriguezm@utp.edu.co.
² Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases API, Panama City, Panama; Investigador SNI Senacyt Panamá, Clinical Research Deparment, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama City, Panama.
³ Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; Latin-American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁴ Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases API, Panama City, Panama; Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Research Group, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia; Programa del Doctorado de Medicina Tropical, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia.
⁵ Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases API, Panama City, Panama; Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Clínica IDB Cabudare, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas IDB, Barquisimeto, 3023, Lara, Venezuela; Infectious Diseases Research Branch, Venezuelan Science Incubator and the Zoonosis and Emerging Pathogens Regional Collaborative Network, Cabudare, 3023, Lara, Venezuela; Laboratorio de Señalización Celular y Bioquímica de Parásitos, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados IDEA, Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela; Academia Nacional de Medicina, Caracas, Venezuela.

PMID: 30802652
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.02.004

No abstract available

Keywords: Colombia; Latin America; Malaria; Migration; Travelers; Venezuela.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Colombia / epidemiology
Emigration and Immigration* / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Malaria / epidemiology*
Malaria / parasitology
Malaria / transmission
Plasmodium falciparum
Plasmodium vivax
Refugees / statistics & numerical data*
Venezuela
World Health Organization