Plasmodium falciparum malaria recrudescence occurring 2.5 years after leaving an endemic country

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 426-428

  Berrevoets, M A H ^a   Sprong, T ^a,b   Meis, J F ^b,c   Dofferhoff, A S M ^a,b  

^a Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (Netherlands)

^b CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Late onset; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Recrudescence

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIN; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE REPORT; CHILL; EMPORIATRICS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE DISORDER; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MALAISE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZONT; SPLENOMEGALY; SWEATING; TACHYPNEA; TROPHOZOITE;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; ATOVAQUONE; BURKINA FASO; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LACTONES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROGUANIL; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 84885701740     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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