Plasmodium falciparum, Vivax and Scrub Typhus in a Young Adult Male: Surviving a Triple Strike

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium species and is called a “Rainy season disease”. Scrub typhus is a zoonotic disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. Both diseases occurring as co-infection are very rare. If a patient presents with a fever complaint, all the possible causes should be ruled out even i...

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Autores principales: Kota, Vijay, Kabra, Ruchita, Kumar, Sunil, Acharya, Sourya, Gemnani, Rinkle R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9648168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36397913
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30176
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author Kota, Vijay
Kabra, Ruchita
Kumar, Sunil
Acharya, Sourya
Gemnani, Rinkle R
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description Malaria is caused by Plasmodium species and is called a “Rainy season disease”. Scrub typhus is a zoonotic disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. Both diseases occurring as co-infection are very rare. If a patient presents with a fever complaint, all the possible causes should be ruled out even if the patient shows infectivity for one of the vector-borne diseases. This case report shows the rare occurrence of the co-infection and its presentation. Early detection and timely management can prevent the patient from various fatal complications.
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spelling pubmed-96481682022-11-16 Plasmodium falciparum, Vivax and Scrub Typhus in a Young Adult Male: Surviving a Triple Strike Kota, Vijay Kabra, Ruchita Kumar, Sunil Acharya, Sourya Gemnani, Rinkle R Cureus Internal Medicine Malaria is caused by Plasmodium species and is called a “Rainy season disease”. Scrub typhus is a zoonotic disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. Both diseases occurring as co-infection are very rare. If a patient presents with a fever complaint, all the possible causes should be ruled out even if the patient shows infectivity for one of the vector-borne diseases. This case report shows the rare occurrence of the co-infection and its presentation. Early detection and timely management can prevent the patient from various fatal complications. Cureus 2022-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9648168/ /pubmed/36397913 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30176 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kota et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Kota, Vijay
Kabra, Ruchita
Kumar, Sunil
Acharya, Sourya
Gemnani, Rinkle R
Plasmodium falciparum, Vivax and Scrub Typhus in a Young Adult Male: Surviving a Triple Strike
title Plasmodium falciparum, Vivax and Scrub Typhus in a Young Adult Male: Surviving a Triple Strike
title_full Plasmodium falciparum, Vivax and Scrub Typhus in a Young Adult Male: Surviving a Triple Strike
title_fullStr Plasmodium falciparum, Vivax and Scrub Typhus in a Young Adult Male: Surviving a Triple Strike
title_full_unstemmed Plasmodium falciparum, Vivax and Scrub Typhus in a Young Adult Male: Surviving a Triple Strike
title_short Plasmodium falciparum, Vivax and Scrub Typhus in a Young Adult Male: Surviving a Triple Strike
title_sort plasmodium falciparum, vivax and scrub typhus in a young adult male: surviving a triple strike
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9648168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36397913
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30176
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