Severe plasmodium vivax malaria complicated with acute respiratory distress syndrome: A case associated with focal autochthonous transmission in Greece

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 378-381

  Gougoutsi, Alexandra ^a,b   Karageorgopoulos, Drosos E ^a,b   Dimitriadou, Areti ^a   Melas, Nikolaos ^a   Kranidiotis, Georgios ^a   Voutsinas, Dionysios ^a   Melidonis, Andreas ^a  

^a TZANEIO GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Critical illness; Malaria; Mechanical ventilation; Pulmonary complications; Severe malaria; Vivax

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; MEFLOQUINE; PRIMAQUINE; QUININE;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAUNDICE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA, VIVAX; TRANSMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84900427475     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1192     Document Type: Article

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