1. Eight year old with fever, hepatomegaly, and positive thick smear
- Author
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Pablo Peñataro Yori, Graciela Meza Sanchez, Cesar Ramal Asayag, Camilo Ruiz Garay, Margaret Kosek, Cesar Jara Baca, Cristiam Carey Angeles, and Carlton A. Evans
- Subjects
Abdominal discomfort ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Dermatology ,THICK SMEAR ,Surgery ,Infectious Diseases ,Virology ,medicine ,Humans ,Parasitology ,Chagas Disease ,Female ,Girl ,business ,Child ,Plasmodium species ,media_common - Abstract
An 8-year-old girl from the rural eastern Amazon department of Loreto presented to her local health post with a 1-week history of fever, headache, and poorly localized abdominal discomfort. At the health post, the child had a temperature of 39°C. A thick smear was obtained, and the patient was started on chloroquine after parasites were observed on the thick smear. The smear was referred to a regional diagnostic center for further evaluation. There the smear was found to be negative for Plasmodium species but positive for
- Published
- 2008