Epidemiological and clinical aspects of diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis of imported malaria cases in Russian Federation

Actually one of the main tasks of health workers in the field of the tropical diseases prevention (malaria) is early detection of malaria imported cases and efficacious treatment. In order to prevent the re-establishment of local malaria transmission by Anopheles mosquitoes from imported malaria cases, and fatal cases of disease there is develop and implement the Case Management Protocol of malaria diagnosis and treatment (2014, 2019) based on long-term experience of epidemiologists and clinicians, taking into account recommendations of WHO (2013, 2015). In this article the main principles of diagnosis and treatment of different malaria species Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax -malaria, prophylaxis measures of autochthonous cases from imported cases of the word endemic region are discussed.