1. Neurological involvement associated with Plasmodium vivax malaria from Pakistan
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Mohammad Asim Beg, Usman Hameed Mian, Yousaf Abdullah Khan, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, and Najia Karim Ghanchi
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Male ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Fever ,Vomiting ,030231 tropical medicine ,Plasmodium vivax ,Malaria, Cerebral ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,03 medical and health sciences ,Antimalarials ,0302 clinical medicine ,Seizures ,030225 pediatrics ,parasitic diseases ,Gametocyte ,Malaria, Vivax ,Medicine ,Humans ,Pakistan ,Child ,High grade fever ,biology ,business.industry ,Unconsciousness ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Infectious Diseases ,Cerebral Malaria ,Plasmodium vivax Malaria ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Malaria - Abstract
Plasmodium vivax is the most common specie causing malaria outside Africa with approximately 13.8 million reported cases worldwide. We report case of P. vivax infection with cerebral involvement. A nine year old boy presented with high grade fever accompanied by projectile vomiting and abnormal behavior later he developed seizures, shock, and unconsciousness. P. vivax monoinfection was diagnosed based on peripheral smears and PCR. After antimalarial therapy, patient made full recovery. Current case highlights increasing trend of cerebral complications caused by P. vivax.
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- 2017