Chronic falciparum malaria causing massive splenomegaly 9 years after leaving an endemic area

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 186-188

  Howden, Benjamin P ^a   Vaddadi, Gautam ^a   Manitta, Joseph ^b   Grayson, M Lindsay ^a,c  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CHLOROQUINE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PRAZIQUANTEL; QUININE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERSPLENISM; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RIGOR; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; SUDAN;

EID: 14544274544     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06652.x     Document Type: Article

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