{"title":"Plasmodium Ovale Malaria: Endemic Areas in Indonesia.","authors":"Umar Zein, Hadiki Habib, Hadyanto Lim","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plasmodium ovale consists of two subspecies - P. ovale wallikeri and P. ovale curtisi. Increased reports of imported malaria ovale in non-endemic regions and mixed infection of P. ovale with other Plasmodium species suggest that P. ovale might be under-detected during routine surveillance. Areas endemic with P. ovale have mostly been reported in African and Western Pacific countries. A recent case report in Indonesia indicated that regions with P. ovale endemicity are not only distributed in Lesser Sunda and Papua, but also in North Sumatra.</p>","PeriodicalId":6889,"journal":{"name":"Acta medica Indonesiana","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Acta medica Indonesiana","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Plasmodium ovale consists of two subspecies - P. ovale wallikeri and P. ovale curtisi. Increased reports of imported malaria ovale in non-endemic regions and mixed infection of P. ovale with other Plasmodium species suggest that P. ovale might be under-detected during routine surveillance. Areas endemic with P. ovale have mostly been reported in African and Western Pacific countries. A recent case report in Indonesia indicated that regions with P. ovale endemicity are not only distributed in Lesser Sunda and Papua, but also in North Sumatra.
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Acta Medica Indonesiana – The Indonesian Journal of Internal Medicine is an open accessed online journal and comprehensive peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Indonesian Society of Internal Medicine since 1968. Our main mission is to encourage the novel and important science in the clinical area in internal medicine. We welcome authors for original articles (research), review articles, interesting case reports, special articles, clinical practices, and medical illustrations that focus on the clinical area of internal medicine. Subjects suitable for publication include, but are not limited to the following fields of: -Allergy and immunology -Emergency medicine -Cancer and stem cells -Cardiovascular -Endocrinology and Metabolism -Gastroenterology -Gerontology -Hematology -Hepatology -Tropical and Infectious Disease -Virology -Internal medicine -Psychosomatic -Pulmonology -Rheumatology -Renal and Hypertension -Thyroid