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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2024

Investigation of an airport-associated cluster of falciparum malaria in Frankfurt, Germany, 2022.

Johanna Kessel, Anna Rosanas-Urgell, Tobias Dingwerth, Udo Goetsch, Jonas Haller, Ralph Huits, Johanna H Kattenberg, Anna Meinecke, Pieter Monsieurs, Michael Sroka and 2 more

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Airport and luggage (Odyssean) malaria in Europe: a systematic review.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2024
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  2. Airport malaria at Frankfurt airport: once again!New microbes and new infections · 2026
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  6. Locally acquired malaria: a retrospective analysis of long-term surveillance data, European France, 1995 to 2022.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Johanna KesselGoethe University, University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Infectious Diseases, Frankfurt, Germany.
Anna Rosanas-UrgellUnit of Malariology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Tobias DingwerthMedical Center Frankfurt, Medical Services & Health Management Lufthansa Group, Frankfurt, Germany.
Udo GoetschMunicipal Health Protection Authority, Frankfurt, Germany.
Jonas HallerGoethe University, Department of Integrative parasitology and animal physiology, Frankfurt, Germany.
Ralph HuitsDepartment of Infectious Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy.
Johanna H KattenbergUnit of Malariology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Anna MeineckeHannover Medical School, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hannover, Germany.
Pieter MonsieursUnit of Malariology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Michael SrokaFraport AG, Medical Services, Frankfurt, Germany.
Torsten WitteHannover Medical School, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hannover, Germany.
Timo WolfGoethe University, University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Infectious Diseases, Frankfurt, Germany.
Goethe University Frankfurt · DEInstituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde · BEMedizinische Hochschule Hannover · DEFraport (Germany) · DELufthansa (Germany) · DEOspedale Sacro Cuore Don Calabria · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Airport malaria is uncommon but increasing in Europe and often difficult to diagnose. We describe the clinical, epidemiological and environmental investigations of a cluster of airport malaria cases and measures taken in response. Three Frankfurt International Airport employees without travel histories to malaria-endemic areas were diagnosed with

Indexed as

MalariaMalaria, FalciparumAirportsAnimalsGermanyHumansPlasmodium falciparumTravelairportemerging infectious diseasesimported infectious diseasesmalariamolecular analysis

Identifiers

PMID38304950
PMCPMC10835754
OpenAlexW4391475015

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Registered trials

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