last update 12.11.2008


Our report in September deals with cases of falciparum malaria reported so far in 2008. There is also a light version available for friends.

We are pleased to welcome the Infectious Diseases Unit at Hospital General Universitario de Elche, Alicante, Spain as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Dr. Jose Manuel Ramos
will be the site manager.

Our report in August deals with malaria patients reported so far in 2008. There is also a light version available for friends.

The report in June is our final summary of cases of schistosomiasis seen in 2007. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in May is our final summary of dengue cases seen in 2007. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in April is our final summary of cases of tertian and quartan malaria seen in 2007. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in March is our final summary of cases of falciparum malaria seen in 2007. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

Our report in February is our final summary of malaria cases seen in 2007. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

Our report in December deals with cases of schistosomiasis reported so far in 2007. There is also a light version for friends available.

Our report in November deals with cases of dengue fever reported so far in 2007. There is also a light version available for friends.

Our report in October deals with cases of tertian and quartan malaria reported so far in 2007. There is also a light version available for friends.

Our report in September deals with cases of falciparum malaria reported so far in 2007. There is also a light version available for friends.

Our report in August deals with malaria patients reported so far in 2007. There is also a light version available for friends.

The report in June is our final summary of cases of schistosomiasis seen in 2006. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in May is our final summary of dengue cases seen in 2006. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.


The report in April is our final summary of cases of tertian and quartan malaria seen in 2006. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.


The report in March is our final summary of cases of falciparum malaria seen in 2006. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.


Our report in February is our final summary of malaria cases seen in 2006. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.


Our report in December deals with cases of schistosomiasis reported so far in 2006. There is also a light version for friends available.


Our report in November deals with cases of dengue fever reported so far in 2006. There is also a light version available for friends.


Our report in October deals with cases of tertian and quartan malaria reported so far in 2006. There is also a light version available for friends.


Our report in September deals with cases of falciparum malaria reported so far in 2006. There is also a light version available for friends.


Our report in August deals with malaria patients reported so far in 2006. There is also a light version available for friends.


The report in June is our final summary of cases of schistosomiasis seen in 2005. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.


The report in May is our final summary of dengue cases seen in 2005. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.


We are pleased to welcome the 3rd Dep. of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Prof. Leo Chalupa
will be the site manager.

We
are pleased to welcome the Dep. of Infectious Diseases, Section Travel Medicine of the Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Dr. Pavel G.
Visser will be the site manager.

The report in April is our final summary of cases of tertian and quartan malaria seen in 2005. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in March is our final summary of cases of falciparum malaria seen in 2005. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

Our report in February is our final summary of malaria cases seen in 2005. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

Our commentary on Malaria prophylaxis policy for travellers from Europe to the Indian Sub Continent has been published at the Malaria Journal

Our report in December deals with cases of schistosomiasis reported so far in 2005. There is also a light version for friends available.

Our report in November deals with cases of dengue fever reported so far in 2005. There is also a light version for friends available.

Our report in October deals with cases of tertian and quartan malaria reported so far in 2005. There is also a light version available for friends.

We are pleased to welcome the INMI L. Spallanzani, Rome, Italy as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Dr. Piero Ghirga will be the site manager.

The TropNet statement addressing the use of intravenous artesunate for treatment of patients with severe malaria is now available at the statement section of our website


We are pleased to welcome the Clinic of Infectious Disease of the University of Udine, Italy as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Dr. Anna Beltrame will be the site manager.

Our report in September deals with cases of falciparum malaria reported so far in 2005. There is also a light version available for friends
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We are pleased to welcome the Service de Parasitologie, Hôpital Tenon in Paris, France as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Dr. Michel Develoux will be the site manager.

Our report in August deals with malaria patients reported so far in 2005. There is also a light version available for friends.

The report in June is our final summary of cases of schistosomiasis seen in 2004. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

We are pleased to welcome the SOD Malattie Infettive e Tropicali, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi in Florence, Italy as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Dr. Alessandro Bartoloni will be the site manager.

The report in May is our final summary of cases of tertian and quartan malaria seen in 2004. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

Material presented at the 8th Congress on Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, June 9th-10th 2005 can be found at our publication area

The report in April is our final summary of dengue cases seen in 2004. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in March is our final summary of cases of falciparum malaria seen in 2004. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

We are pleased to welcome the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Aalborg Hospital, in Aalborg, Denmark as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Dr. Henrik Nielsen will be the site manager.

Our report in February is our final summary of malaria cases seen in 2004. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

Our report in December deals with cases of schistosomiasis reported so far in 2004. There is also a light version for friends available.

Our report in November deals with cases of dengue fever reported so far in 2004. There is also a light version for friends available.

We are pleased to welcome the Sorlandet Hospital in Kristiansand, Norway as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Prof. Svein Gunnar Gundersen will be the site manager.

Our report in October deals with cases of tertian and quartan malaria reported so far in 2004. There is also a light version available for friends.

Our report in September deals with cases of falciparum malaria reported so far in 2004. There is also a light version available for friends.

New results from the TropNetEurop "Malaria filter paper study" have been published in JID: Screening for Mutations Related to Atovaquone/Proguanil Resistance in Treatment Failures and Other Imported Isolates of Plasmodium falciparum in Europe.

Our report in August deals with malaria patients reported so far in 2004. There is also a light version available for friends.

The report in June is our final summary of schistosomiasis cases seen in 2003. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

Eurosurveillance Weekly has published a short report from our network: "TropNetEurop surveillance data: Trends in imported malaria 2003".

The report in May is our final summary of dengue cases seen in 2003. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

We are pleased to welcome the Central Hospital of Rogaland in Stavanger, Norway, as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Dr. Åse Berg will be the site manager.

The report in April is our final summary of cases of tertian and quartan malaria seen in 2003. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in March is our final summary of cases of falciparum malaria seen in 2003. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

We are pleased to welcome the Div. "A" Malattie Infettive of Ospedale Amedeo di Savoia in Torino, Italy, as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Dr. Guido Calleri will be the site manager.

The report in February is our final summary of malaria cases seen in 2003. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

Our report in December deals with cases of schistosomiasis reported so far in 2003. There is also a light version for friends available.

Our report in November deals with cases of dengue fever reported so far in 2003. There is also a light version for friends available.

Our report in October deals with cases of tertian and quartan malaria reported so far in 2003. There is also a light version available for friends.

Our report in September deals with cases of falciparum malaria reported so far in 2003. There is also a light version available for friends.

Our report in August deals with malaria patients reported so far in 2003. There is also a light version available for friends.

The report in June is our final summary of schistosomiasis cases seen in 2002. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

Important: The TropNet reporting tools have been modified. Latest versions of the faxform and the TropNetSentry software (version 10/2003) are availabe at our download area

The report in May is our final summary of dengue cases seen in 2002. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in April is our final summary of tertian and quartan malaria cases seen in 2002. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in March is our final summary of the cases of falciparum malaria seen in 2002. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

Our latest publication, "Age as a Risk Factor for Severe Manifestations and Fatal Outcome of Falciparum Malaria in European Patients: Observations from TropNetEurop and SIMPID Surveillance Data." has been published by Clin Infect Dis.

The report in February is our final summary of malaria cases seen in 2002. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

We are very pleased to announce that TropNetEurop has gained two new members:
1) Aarhus, Denmark
Deptartment of infectious Diseases and tropical Medicine, Skejby University Hospital of Aarhus
Site manager: Finn Trunk Black
2) Tromsoe, Norway
University Hospital of Tromsoe
Site manager: Jan Bacher Christensen

Our report in December deals with cases of schistosomiasis reported so far in 2002. There is also a light version for friends available.

We are pleased to welcome the Kanta-Häme Central Hospital, in Hämeenlinna, Finland as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Dr. Satu Pastila will be the site manager.

We are pleased to welcome the Clinical Department of the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Dr. Gerd Burchard will be the site manager.

Our report in November deals with cases of dengue fever reported so far in 2002. There is also a light version for friends available.

Our report in October deals with cases of tertian and quartan malaria reported so far in 2002. There is also a light version available for friends.

We are pleased to welcome the Travel Clinic at the Policlinique Médicale Universitaire, University of Lausanne, Switzerland as a new member of TropNetEurop.
Dr. Blaise Genton will be the site manager.

Our report in September deals with cases of falciparum malaria reported so far in 2002. There is also a light version for friends available.

We are very pleased to announce that TropNetEurop has gained several new members.

1) Barcelona, Spain
Unitat de Malalties Tropicals, Importades i Vacunacions Internationales, Institut Català de la Salut
Site manager: Jordi Gómez i Prat
2) Bergen, Norway
Centre for tropical medicine and imported infectious diseases (CTID), Division of infectious diseases, Medical Dept., Haukeland University Hospital
Site manager: Vidar Lehmann
3) Bordeaux, France
Médecine interne et Maladies tropicales, Hôpital St André-CHU
Site manager: Denis JM Malvy
4) Helsinki, Finland
Aurora hospital
Site manager: Heli Siikamaki

The recent additions increase the size of our network to 44 sites, with approximately 57,000 patients seen post travel. This makes TropNetEurop to the largest clinical network dealing with imported infections world-wide.

Our report in August deals with malaria patients reported so far in 2002. There is also a light version for friends available.

Our report on cases of malarone treatment failure has been updated (see report section on malaria).

We issued a report summarising 7 cases of malarone treatment failure (see reports section on malaria).

The report in June is our final summary of schistosomiasis cases seen in 2001. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The proceedings of our workshop in Barcelona are published in the meeting area.

The report in May is our final summary of dengue cases seen in 2001. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends. Due to lately increased reports of dengue in returnees from Thailand, we also present a special report of dengue cases seen in 2002 sofar. This interim report is likewise available as full version for members and light version for friends.

Our report on the Cluster of African Trypanosomiasis in Travelers to Tanzanian National Parks has now been published in Emerging Infectious Diseases (2002) Vol 8. No 6; 634-635

The report in April is our final summary of tertian and quartan malaria cases seen in 2001. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in March is our final summary of falciparum malaria cases seen in 2001. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in February is our final summary of malaria cases seen in 2001. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

We are happy to welcome a new member at TropNetEurop: The Tropical Medicine Service at Hopital Avicenne in Bobigny France has decided to join the network. Olivier Bouchaud will be the site manager.

The report in January deals with P. falciparum resistance-related mutations detected in TropNet samples. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

We are happy to welcome the Department and Clinic of Tropical and Parasitic Diseases, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland as new member of TropNetEurop. Malgorzata Paul will be the site manager.

The report in December deals with schistosomiasis patients that were seen in 2001. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in November deals with dengue patients that were seen in 2001. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in October deals with cases of tertian & quartan malaria seen in 2001. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.

The report in September deals with falciparum malaria patients that were seen in 2001. There is also a light version for friends available.

We are happy to welcome the Department of Infectious Diseases, Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway as our 36th TropNetEurop member. Bjørn Myrvand will be the site manager.

The report in August deals with malaria patients that were seen in 2001. There is also a light version for friends available.

We are happy to welcome the 4. Medical Department of the Kaiser Franz Josef - Spital in Vienna, Austria, as new TropNetEurop member. Dr. Herman Laferl will be the site manager.

The workshop proceedings are published in the meeting area.


We are happy to welcome Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine as new member of TropNetEurop. David Lalloo will be the site manager.

Special reports
concerning one case with malaria and 3 cases with leptospirosis imported from Dominican Republic have been published.

We published our updated list of stocks of anti-tryps drugs in Europe in the special reports area.It seems that the increased activity of African trypanosomiasis in Serengeti NP has ceased for the time being. A summary of this outbreak will be presented during a symposium at the Innsbruck conference next week.


The report in June deals with dengue patients that were seen in 2000. Like every month we published a full version for members and a light version for friends.


Special reports
about a case with viral encephalitis imported from Australia and a cluster of patients with histoplasmosis imported from Guatemala have been published.

The monthly report in May about Schistosomiasis in 2000 is available in the members- and friends report area.

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Philip Stanley from the Department of Infectious Diseases of Leeds Teaching Hospitals as our new memeber!

The newest report about tertian & quartan malaria 2000 has been published in the Members Area.

A report about 6 cases of African trypanosomiasis imported from the Serengeti has been published in the special reports area and also a list of the stock of anti trypanosomiasis drugs within Europe.

As a sequel to the last report we published our newest report focusing on imported falciparum malaria in the Members area. An exerpt is open to the public.

A list of publications within the framework of TropNetEurop is announced in the Publication area.

The first report in 2001 is out now. It gives an overview on imported malaria in 2000 with 1120 cases. An excerpt is open to the public.

TropNetEurop meeting on June 30th and July 1st 2001 in Munich !

A report about an apparent malaria increase imported from the Gambia has been published in the Special Reports area and also an update to this subject.

We have decided to publish short excerpts of the monthly reports to all interested parties in the Report Area.

Messages about trypanosomiasis imported from Tanzania have been published in the Special Reports area.

The report for November, focusing on imported dengue in 2000 can be found in the Members Area.

We are pleased to welcome Prof. K. Fleischer from the Missionsärztliche Klinik, Würzburg as our 35 th member.

Falciparum malaria in chinese immigrants:Update

We are pleased to welcome Prof. A. Benito from the National Center for Microbiology & Hospital Carlos III, Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Madrid.

In the last weeks it was a pleasure to welcome Coimbra, Portugal, Bradford, UK, Huddinge, Sweden and Newcastle, UK as new TropNetEurop member sites.
Prof. S. da Cunha from the Department of Infection Medicine of the University Hospital, Coimbra, Dr. Paul McWhinney from the Infection and Tropical Medicine Unit of Bradford Royal Infirmary, Prof. Urban Hellgren from the Division of Infectious Diseases from Huddinge University Hospital and Dr. Matthias Schmid from the Department of Infection & Tropical Medicine of the Newcastle General Hospital have agreed to join our network and to participate in regular reporting.

Recent massages about a cluster of malaria cases among immigrants from a non-endemic area of China and an increase in patients presenting with Dengue fever after travel to the Dominican Republic have been published in the Special Reports area