RESUMO
Between 1990 and 1996 we coordinated a Quality Control (QC) Program in Parasitology directed to Public Health Institutions in Spain. Periodically, parasited specimens, mainly feces or blood, were sent to Microbiology Laboratories for identification. Each QC was accompanied by a short clinic and epidemiological information in order to help in the diagnostic approach. After the answers to the QC were received a bulletin that included the solution to the QC, comments on the several answers received and a chapter with parasitological themes related with the QC, was sent to each participating Laboratory. The bulletin was accompanied by a card that included a photograph and a short description of the organism object of the QC.
Assuntos
Parasitologia/normas , Controle de Qualidade , EspanhaRESUMO
The finding of two imported cases of malaria in Spain is reported. Although their origin, their age and their clinical history were different, they both showed parasites of atypical morphology. One was diagnosed as P. vivax and the other as P. ovale, but the morphology observed in both cases does not correspond to what is considered as normal in the two species. In the first case forms similar to those of P. ovale were observed and in the second case P. vivax-like forms. The findings reported confirm the overlapping morphological variability of the two species.
