TY - JOUR AU - Sainz-Elipe, Sandra AU - Latorre, Jose Manuel AU - Escosa, Raul AU - MasiĆ , Montserrat AU - Fuentes, Marius Vicent AU - Mas-Coma, Santiago AU - Bargues, Maria Dolores PY - 2010 DA - 2010/07/31 TI - Malaria resurgence risk in southern Europe: climate assessment in an historically endemic area of rice fields at the Mediterranean shore of Spain JO - Malaria Journal SP - 221 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - International travel and immigration have been related with an increase of imported malaria cases. This fact and climate change, prolonging the period favouring vector development, require an analysis of the malaria transmission resurgence risk in areas of southern Europe. Such a study is made for the first time in Spain. The Ebro Delta historically endemic area was selected due to its rice field landscape, the presence of only one vector, Anopheles atroparvus, with densities similar to those it presented when malaria was present, in a situation which pronouncedly differs from already assessed potential resurgence areas in other Mediterranean countries, such as France and Italy, where many different Anopheles species coexist and a different vector species dominates. SN - 1475-2875 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-221 DO - 10.1186/1475-2875-9-221 ID - Sainz-Elipe2010 ER -