A 4-Day Incubation Period of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in a Nonimmune Patient in Ghana: A Case Report

Plasmodium falciparum can cause severe infection and has the shortest incubation period compared with all the other Plasmodium species. Incubation periods of 9–14 days for the immune and 6–14 days for the nonimmune have been reported for P. falciparum. However, an incubation period of less than 5 da...

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Autores principales: Orish, Verner, Afutu, Leslie, Ayodele, Oladapo, Likaj, Lorena, Marinkovic, Aleksandra, Sanyaolu, Adekunle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6335624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30680293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy169
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author Orish, Verner
Afutu, Leslie
Ayodele, Oladapo
Likaj, Lorena
Marinkovic, Aleksandra
Sanyaolu, Adekunle
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Sanyaolu, Adekunle
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description Plasmodium falciparum can cause severe infection and has the shortest incubation period compared with all the other Plasmodium species. Incubation periods of 9–14 days for the immune and 6–14 days for the nonimmune have been reported for P. falciparum. However, an incubation period of less than 5 days has not been reported, as of yet. This report presents a case of a 23-year-old nonimmune female who presented with signs and symptoms 4 days after being bitten by mosquitoes while visiting Ghana. The patient was successfully treated with a 1-day course of parenteral artesunate, followed by a 3-day course of oral artemisinin combination therapy.
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spelling pubmed-63356242019-01-24 A 4-Day Incubation Period of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in a Nonimmune Patient in Ghana: A Case Report Orish, Verner Afutu, Leslie Ayodele, Oladapo Likaj, Lorena Marinkovic, Aleksandra Sanyaolu, Adekunle Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Plasmodium falciparum can cause severe infection and has the shortest incubation period compared with all the other Plasmodium species. Incubation periods of 9–14 days for the immune and 6–14 days for the nonimmune have been reported for P. falciparum. However, an incubation period of less than 5 days has not been reported, as of yet. This report presents a case of a 23-year-old nonimmune female who presented with signs and symptoms 4 days after being bitten by mosquitoes while visiting Ghana. The patient was successfully treated with a 1-day course of parenteral artesunate, followed by a 3-day course of oral artemisinin combination therapy. Oxford University Press 2019-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6335624/ /pubmed/30680293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy169 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Afutu, Leslie
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Likaj, Lorena
Marinkovic, Aleksandra
Sanyaolu, Adekunle
A 4-Day Incubation Period of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in a Nonimmune Patient in Ghana: A Case Report
title A 4-Day Incubation Period of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in a Nonimmune Patient in Ghana: A Case Report
title_full A 4-Day Incubation Period of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in a Nonimmune Patient in Ghana: A Case Report
title_fullStr A 4-Day Incubation Period of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in a Nonimmune Patient in Ghana: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed A 4-Day Incubation Period of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in a Nonimmune Patient in Ghana: A Case Report
title_short A 4-Day Incubation Period of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in a Nonimmune Patient in Ghana: A Case Report
title_sort 4-day incubation period of plasmodium falciparum infection in a nonimmune patient in ghana: a case report
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6335624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30680293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy169
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