Hemiparesis post cerebral malaria

Cerebral malaria is one of the most serious complications in the Plasmodium falciparum infection. In endemic areas, the cerebral malaria interested mainly children. The occurrence in adults is very rare and most interested adult traveling in tropical zones. This case report describes a motor deficit...

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Autores principales: Taiaa, Oumkaltoum, Amil, Touriya, Darbi, Abdelatif
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25995798
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.20.1.5568
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author Taiaa, Oumkaltoum
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description Cerebral malaria is one of the most serious complications in the Plasmodium falciparum infection. In endemic areas, the cerebral malaria interested mainly children. The occurrence in adults is very rare and most interested adult traveling in tropical zones. This case report describes a motor deficit post cerebral malaria in a young adult traveling in malaria endemic area. This complication has been reported especially in children and seems very rare in adults.
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spelling pubmed-44301542015-05-20 Hemiparesis post cerebral malaria Taiaa, Oumkaltoum Amil, Touriya Darbi, Abdelatif Pan Afr Med J Case Report Cerebral malaria is one of the most serious complications in the Plasmodium falciparum infection. In endemic areas, the cerebral malaria interested mainly children. The occurrence in adults is very rare and most interested adult traveling in tropical zones. This case report describes a motor deficit post cerebral malaria in a young adult traveling in malaria endemic area. This complication has been reported especially in children and seems very rare in adults. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4430154/ /pubmed/25995798 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.20.1.5568 Text en © Oumkaltoum Taiaa et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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