1. [Relapse of Plasmodium malariae malaria 20 years after living in an endemic area]
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Siala, Emna, Khalfaoui, Moncef, Bouratbine, Aida, Hamdi, Samira, Hili, Kamel, Aoun, Karim, Laboratoire de Parasitologie Médicale, Biotechnologies et Biomolécules (LR11IPT06), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Infectious Diseases Department, Menzel Bourguiba Regional Hospital, Laboratoire de parasitologie-mycologie, parasitoses médicales, biotechnologie et biomolécules, Laboratoire de Parasitologie Médicale, Biotechnologies et Biomolécules ( LR11IPT06 ), Institut Pasteur de Tunis-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur ( RIIP ), Institut des Maladies Métaboliques et Cardiovasculaires ( I2MC ), and Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ) -Hôpital de Rangueil-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM )
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Male ,Tunisia ,Endemic Diseases ,MESH : Recurrence ,MESH : Male ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,MESH: Malaria ,MESH : Malaria ,Antimalarials ,Plasmodium malariae ,Recurrence ,Residence Characteristics ,MESH : Tunisia ,parasitic diseases ,MESH : Plasmodium malariae ,Animals ,Humans ,MESH : Middle Aged ,MESH: Animals ,MESH: Residence Characteristics ,MESH: Plasmodium malariae ,MESH : Mefloquine ,[SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases ,MESH: Humans ,MESH: Middle Aged ,[ SDV ] Life Sciences [q-bio] ,[ SDV.MHEP.ME ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases ,MESH : Humans ,[ SDV.SPEE ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie ,Middle Aged ,MESH: Antimalarials ,MESH: Male ,MESH: Recurrence ,Malaria ,Mefloquine ,MESH : Residence Characteristics ,MESH: Endemic Diseases ,MESH : Antimalarials ,[SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie ,MESH : Animals ,MESH: Tunisia ,MESH : Endemic Diseases ,MESH: Mefloquine - Abstract
International audience; INTRODUCTION:Malaria has been eradicated in Tunisia since 1979. Although it continues to be evoked in the case of fever after travel to an endemic zone, its diagnosis is however difficult during relapses, notably when they are delayed.OBSERVATION:A 50 year-old man having lived in Mauritania from 1978 to 1982 was hospitalized for interstitial pneumopathy and urarthritis. In spite of treatment with broad spectrum antibiotics, the fever accompanied by abundant sweating persisted. A thick blood drop and blood smear was requested and led to the diagnosis of Plasmodium malariae malaria.DISCUSSION:This observation recalls the possibility of parasitic upsurge of some plasmodial species. It should prompt physicians to be careful and evoke malaria in the case of fever in subjects having stayed, even several years before, in an endemic zone. This would permit early diagnosis and treatment.
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- 2005
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