A pregnant Japanese woman returning from Africa with recurrent fevers

Certain clinical aspects of vivax malaria are no longer defined as benign. We present a case of vivax malaria with three relapses in a pregnant Japanese woman who had returned to Japan from the Comoros Islands in East Africa. Data on the successful delivery, examination of Duffy-blood group antigen,...

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Autores principales: Tsukadaira, Akihiro, Sekiguchi, Tomohiro, Ashida, Takashi, Murashita, Chinatsu, Itoh, Nobuo, Kobayashi, Mikiko, Kagoshima, Takashi, Yamazaki, Yoshitaka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3658244/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23754912
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S26997
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Sumario:Certain clinical aspects of vivax malaria are no longer defined as benign. We present a case of vivax malaria with three relapses in a pregnant Japanese woman who had returned to Japan from the Comoros Islands in East Africa. Data on the successful delivery, examination of Duffy-blood group antigen, and microscopic findings of growing stages of Plasmodium vivax are thought to be of considerable interest.

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