Congenital Plasmodium vivax malaria mimicking neonatal sepsis: A case report

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Del Punta, Veronica ^a   Gulletta, Maurizio ^a   Matteelli, Alberto ^a   Spinoni, Vania ^b   Regazzoli, Antonio ^c   Castelli, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b Spedali Clivili ^*  (Italy)

^c Laboratory of Chemical and Clinical Analysis   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHLOROQUINE; GENTAMICIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD PARASITE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GESTATION PERIOD; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; LEUKOCYTE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PALLOR; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; SCHIZONT; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TROPHOZOITE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHLOROQUINE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALARIA, VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77949578694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-63     Document Type: Article

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