Case report: Malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax complicated by acalculous cholecystitis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-49

  Curley, Justin M ^a   Mody, Rupal M ^a   Gasser Jr , Robert A ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CHLOROQUINE; CLINDAMYCIN; DIGLYCINE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DOXYCYCLINE; DROTRECOGIN; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEFLOQUINE; PARACETAMOL; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PRIMAQUINE; QUINIDINE; QUININE SULFATE;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEVER; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROSCOPY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PARASITEMIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTVIRAL FATIGUE SYNDROME; RASH; RIGOR; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOMNOLENCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR; ANIMAL;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE;

EID: 79960255198     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0724     Document Type: Article

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