Severe Malaria: A Case of a Significant Rapid Rise in the Parasite Level

Malaria is transmitted by the Plasmodium parasite, and most of the cases reported in the United States are often as a result of patients with recent return from endemic areas. Prompt diagnosis and treatment, particularly if there is severe parasitemia and drug failure, is essential in preventing mor...

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Autores principales: Atere, Muhammed, Muzangwa, Lloyd, Munoh Kenne, Foma, Hanna, Cherry, Saverimuttu, Jessie, Kopetz, Virginia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7102467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257469
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/5206186
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author Atere, Muhammed
Muzangwa, Lloyd
Munoh Kenne, Foma
Hanna, Cherry
Saverimuttu, Jessie
Kopetz, Virginia
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description Malaria is transmitted by the Plasmodium parasite, and most of the cases reported in the United States are often as a result of patients with recent return from endemic areas. Prompt diagnosis and treatment, particularly if there is severe parasitemia and drug failure, is essential in preventing mortality. Our patient had an unusual rapid rise in parasite but susceptible to intravenous artesunate.
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spelling pubmed-71024672020-04-01 Severe Malaria: A Case of a Significant Rapid Rise in the Parasite Level Atere, Muhammed Muzangwa, Lloyd Munoh Kenne, Foma Hanna, Cherry Saverimuttu, Jessie Kopetz, Virginia Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Malaria is transmitted by the Plasmodium parasite, and most of the cases reported in the United States are often as a result of patients with recent return from endemic areas. Prompt diagnosis and treatment, particularly if there is severe parasitemia and drug failure, is essential in preventing mortality. Our patient had an unusual rapid rise in parasite but susceptible to intravenous artesunate. Hindawi 2020-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7102467/ /pubmed/32257469 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/5206186 Text en Copyright © 2020 Muhammed Atere et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Severe Malaria: A Case of a Significant Rapid Rise in the Parasite Level
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