Malaria in the Time of COVID-19: Do Not Miss the Real Cause of Illness

We report a case of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in a patient asymptomatically co-infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In the current ongoing coronavirus pandemic, co-infections with unrelated life-threatening febrile conditions may pose a particular challenge...

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Autores principales: Jochum, Johannes, Kreuels, Benno, Tannich, Egbert, Huber, Samuel, Schulze zur Wiesch, Julian, Schmiedel, Stefan, Ramharter, Michael, Addo, Marylyn M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8103267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33810597
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6020040
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author Jochum, Johannes
Kreuels, Benno
Tannich, Egbert
Huber, Samuel
Schulze zur Wiesch, Julian
Schmiedel, Stefan
Ramharter, Michael
Addo, Marylyn M.
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Kreuels, Benno
Tannich, Egbert
Huber, Samuel
Schulze zur Wiesch, Julian
Schmiedel, Stefan
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description We report a case of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in a patient asymptomatically co-infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In the current ongoing coronavirus pandemic, co-infections with unrelated life-threatening febrile conditions may pose a particular challenge to clinicians. The current situation increases the risk for cognitive biases in medical management.
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spelling pubmed-81032672021-05-08 Malaria in the Time of COVID-19: Do Not Miss the Real Cause of Illness Jochum, Johannes Kreuels, Benno Tannich, Egbert Huber, Samuel Schulze zur Wiesch, Julian Schmiedel, Stefan Ramharter, Michael Addo, Marylyn M. Trop Med Infect Dis Communication We report a case of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in a patient asymptomatically co-infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In the current ongoing coronavirus pandemic, co-infections with unrelated life-threatening febrile conditions may pose a particular challenge to clinicians. The current situation increases the risk for cognitive biases in medical management. MDPI 2021-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8103267/ /pubmed/33810597 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6020040 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ).
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Huber, Samuel
Schulze zur Wiesch, Julian
Schmiedel, Stefan
Ramharter, Michael
Addo, Marylyn M.
Malaria in the Time of COVID-19: Do Not Miss the Real Cause of Illness
title Malaria in the Time of COVID-19: Do Not Miss the Real Cause of Illness
title_full Malaria in the Time of COVID-19: Do Not Miss the Real Cause of Illness
title_fullStr Malaria in the Time of COVID-19: Do Not Miss the Real Cause of Illness
title_full_unstemmed Malaria in the Time of COVID-19: Do Not Miss the Real Cause of Illness
title_short Malaria in the Time of COVID-19: Do Not Miss the Real Cause of Illness
title_sort malaria in the time of covid-19: do not miss the real cause of illness
topic Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8103267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33810597
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6020040
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