COVID-19 Associated Imported Plasmodium vivax Malaria Relapse: First Reported Case and Literature Review

Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) is a protozoan parasite that causes vivax malaria. Disease relapse post-treatment is reported in P. vivax co-infection with other bacterial and parasitic infections, but Plasmodium vivax reactivation is not very common with viral infections. Early recognition and diagnosi...

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Autores principales: Shahid, Zubair, Karim, Nadia, Shahid, Fakhar, Yousaf, Zohaib
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8121982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34007238
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RRTM.S292157
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author Shahid, Zubair
Karim, Nadia
Shahid, Fakhar
Yousaf, Zohaib
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description Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) is a protozoan parasite that causes vivax malaria. Disease relapse post-treatment is reported in P. vivax co-infection with other bacterial and parasitic infections, but Plasmodium vivax reactivation is not very common with viral infections. Early recognition and diagnosis of a Plasmodium vivax malaria relapse in a non-endemic region pose a diagnostic dilemma. COVID-19 co-infection compounds this dilemma due to overlapping symptoms. Early diagnosis and treatment are essential for a favorable clinical outcome. We report a middle-aged gentleman with high-grade fever and headaches who had COVID-19 and was found to have a relapse of Plasmodium vivax malaria.
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spelling pubmed-81219822021-05-17 COVID-19 Associated Imported Plasmodium vivax Malaria Relapse: First Reported Case and Literature Review Shahid, Zubair Karim, Nadia Shahid, Fakhar Yousaf, Zohaib Res Rep Trop Med Case Report Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) is a protozoan parasite that causes vivax malaria. Disease relapse post-treatment is reported in P. vivax co-infection with other bacterial and parasitic infections, but Plasmodium vivax reactivation is not very common with viral infections. Early recognition and diagnosis of a Plasmodium vivax malaria relapse in a non-endemic region pose a diagnostic dilemma. COVID-19 co-infection compounds this dilemma due to overlapping symptoms. Early diagnosis and treatment are essential for a favorable clinical outcome. We report a middle-aged gentleman with high-grade fever and headaches who had COVID-19 and was found to have a relapse of Plasmodium vivax malaria. Dove 2021-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8121982/ /pubmed/34007238 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RRTM.S292157 Text en © 2021 Shahid et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_sort covid-19 associated imported plasmodium vivax malaria relapse: first reported case and literature review
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