Post-Malaria neurological syndrome: A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 424-430

  Markley, J Daniel ^a   Edmond, Michael B ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; FANSIDAR; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; MEFLOQUINE; PETHIDINE; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN; QUINIDINE; QUININE DERIVATIVE; STEROID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADULT; AFRICA; APHASIA; ASIA; ATAXIA; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BLOOD SMEAR; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN MALARIA; CASE REPORT; CATATONIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONDUCTION APHASIA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISORIENTATION; DIZZINESS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEVER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HUMAN; ILEUS; MALAISE; MALARIA; MALE; MEDLINE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; MYALGIA; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PARASITEMIA; PERSEVERATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLEOCYTOSIS; POST MALARIA NEUROLOGICAL SYNDROME; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREMOR; WEAKNESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALE; MEFLOQUINE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TRAVEL;

EID: 70449457522     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2009.00349.x     Document Type: Review

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