Concurrent meningitis and vivax malaria
| Autor: | Sumana Datta, Arnab Kar, Tuhin Santra, Mita Bar, Kunal Ranjan, Apu Adhikary, Neha Agrawal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Vol 4, Iss 4, Pp 594-595 (2015) Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care |
| ISSN: | 2249-4863 |
| DOI: | 10.4103/2249-4863.174301 |
| Popis: | 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. |
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