1. Concurrent meningitis and vivax malaria.
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Santra, Tuhin, Datta, Sumana, Agrawal, Neha, Bar, Mita, Kar, Arnab, Adhikary, Apu, and Ranjan, Kunal
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MALARIA immunology ,ENDEMIC diseases ,TRANSMISSION of protozoan diseases ,PUBLIC health - Abstract
Malaria is an endemic infectious disease in India. It is often associated with other infective conditions but concomitant infection of malaria and meningitis are uncommon. We present a case of meningitis with vivax malaria infection in a 24-year-old lady. This case emphasizes the importance of high index of clinical suspicion to detect other infective conditions like meningitis when fever does not improve even after anti-malarial treatment in a patient of malaria before switching therapy suspecting drug resistance, which is quite common in this part of world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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