Concurrent meningitis and vivax malaria

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...

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Autores principales: Santra, Tuhin, Datta, Sumana, Agrawal, Neha, Bar, Mita, Kar, Arnab, Adhikary, Apu, Ranjan, Kunal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4776616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26985423
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.174301
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author Santra, Tuhin
Datta, Sumana
Agrawal, Neha
Bar, Mita
Kar, Arnab
Adhikary, Apu
Ranjan, Kunal
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description 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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spelling pubmed-47766162016-03-16 Concurrent meningitis and vivax malaria Santra, Tuhin Datta, Sumana Agrawal, Neha Bar, Mita Kar, Arnab Adhikary, Apu Ranjan, Kunal J Family Med Prim Care Case Report 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. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4776616/ /pubmed/26985423 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.174301 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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