Plasmodium falciparum and Mycoplasma pneumoniae co-infection presenting with cerebral malaria manifesting orofacial dyskinesia and haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

BACKGROUND: Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease with diverse clinical manifestations caused by a parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium. Complex inter-relationships between Mycoplasma species and Plasmodium parasites have been previously noted in vitro. This is the first report of Pl...

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Autores principales: Weeratunga, Praveen, Rathnayake, Gowri, Sivashangar, Ahalya, Karunanayake, Panduka, Gnanathasan, Ariaranee, Chang, Thashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5016978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27609213
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1517-x

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