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COVID-19 and Plasmodium vivax malaria co-infection

The ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 poses an unprecedented global health challenge. With its variety of clinical manifestations including, but not limited to, fever, cough, diarrhea, vomiting, headache, myalgia and fatigue, it may be challenging to distinguish COVID-19 from a spectrum of diseases with...

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Autores principales: Sardar, Sundus, Sharma, Rohit, Alyamani, Tariq Yousef Mohammad, Aboukamar, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7305490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32665888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00879
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Aboukamar, Mohamed
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description The ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 poses an unprecedented global health challenge. With its variety of clinical manifestations including, but not limited to, fever, cough, diarrhea, vomiting, headache, myalgia and fatigue, it may be challenging to distinguish COVID-19 from a spectrum of diseases with similar presentations, such as malaria, especially in endemic areas. Risk of concomitant infections also remains a concern owing to overburdening of healthcare services and possible scarcity of resources. We present the first reported case of confirmed COVID and malaria co-infection. In this case, we emphasize the need for vigilance from frontline clinicians for timely diagnosis and appropriate clinical management of potential co-infections in the COVID era.
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spelling pubmed-73054902020-06-22 COVID-19 and Plasmodium vivax malaria co-infection Sardar, Sundus Sharma, Rohit Alyamani, Tariq Yousef Mohammad Aboukamar, Mohamed IDCases Article The ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 poses an unprecedented global health challenge. With its variety of clinical manifestations including, but not limited to, fever, cough, diarrhea, vomiting, headache, myalgia and fatigue, it may be challenging to distinguish COVID-19 from a spectrum of diseases with similar presentations, such as malaria, especially in endemic areas. Risk of concomitant infections also remains a concern owing to overburdening of healthcare services and possible scarcity of resources. We present the first reported case of confirmed COVID and malaria co-infection. In this case, we emphasize the need for vigilance from frontline clinicians for timely diagnosis and appropriate clinical management of potential co-infections in the COVID era. Elsevier 2020-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7305490/ /pubmed/32665888 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00879 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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