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Plasmodium ovale: a case of not-so-benign tertian malaria
Severe malaria is most commonly associated with Plasmodium falciparum. Plasmodium vivax is increasingly recognized as being capable of causing severe disease. In contrast, Plasmodium ovale is considered as a cause of benign disease and evidence supporting the occurrence of severe or complicated oval...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3984724/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24612535 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-85 |
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author | Strydom, Kathy-Anne Ismail, Farzana Frean, John |
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description | Severe malaria is most commonly associated with Plasmodium falciparum. Plasmodium vivax is increasingly recognized as being capable of causing severe disease. In contrast, Plasmodium ovale is considered as a cause of benign disease and evidence supporting the occurrence of severe or complicated ovale infection is rare. This report describes a case of severe P. ovale infection in a patient presenting with jaundice, respiratory distress, severe thrombocytopenia, petechiae, and hypotension. He had no apparent underlying risk factors for severe disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-39847242014-04-14 Plasmodium ovale: a case of not-so-benign tertian malaria Strydom, Kathy-Anne Ismail, Farzana Frean, John Malar J Case Report Severe malaria is most commonly associated with Plasmodium falciparum. Plasmodium vivax is increasingly recognized as being capable of causing severe disease. In contrast, Plasmodium ovale is considered as a cause of benign disease and evidence supporting the occurrence of severe or complicated ovale infection is rare. This report describes a case of severe P. ovale infection in a patient presenting with jaundice, respiratory distress, severe thrombocytopenia, petechiae, and hypotension. He had no apparent underlying risk factors for severe disease. BioMed Central 2014-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3984724/ /pubmed/24612535 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-85 Text en Copyright © 2014 Strydom et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Strydom, Kathy-Anne Ismail, Farzana Frean, John Plasmodium ovale: a case of not-so-benign tertian malaria |
title | Plasmodium ovale: a case of not-so-benign tertian malaria |
title_full | Plasmodium ovale: a case of not-so-benign tertian malaria |
title_fullStr | Plasmodium ovale: a case of not-so-benign tertian malaria |
title_full_unstemmed | Plasmodium ovale: a case of not-so-benign tertian malaria |
title_short | Plasmodium ovale: a case of not-so-benign tertian malaria |
title_sort | plasmodium ovale: a case of not-so-benign tertian malaria |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3984724/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24612535 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-85 |
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