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[Congenital malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium malariae].
- Source :
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Wiener klinische Wochenschrift [Wien Klin Wochenschr] 2000 May 19; Vol. 112 (10), pp. 459-61. - Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- Increasing tourism and growing numbers of immigrants from malaria-endemic countries are leading to a higher importation rate of rare tropical disorders in European countries. We describe, to the best of our knowledge, the first case of connatal malaria in Austria. The patient is the first child of a 24 year old mother who was born in Ghana and immigrated to Austria one and a half years before delivery. She did not stay in an endemic region during this period and did not show fever or any other signs of malaria. The boy was healthy for the first six weeks of his life. In the 8th week of life he was admitted to our hospital due to persistent fever of unknown origin. On physical examination he showed only mild splenomegaly. Routine laboratory testing revealed mild hemolytic anemia with a hemoglobin value of 8.3 g/l. In the blood smear Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium malariae were detected. Oral therapy with quinine hydrochloride was successful and blood smears became negative for Plasmodia within 6 days. This case shows that congenital malaria can occur in children of clinically healthy women who were born in malaria-endemic areas even one and a half year after they have immigrated to non-endemic regions.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Animals
Antimalarials therapeutic use
Austria epidemiology
Female
Fever of Unknown Origin parasitology
Ghana ethnology
Humans
Infant
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical
Malaria diagnosis
Malaria therapy
Malaria, Falciparum congenital
Malaria, Falciparum diagnosis
Male
Quinine therapeutic use
Time Factors
Treatment Outcome
Malaria congenital
Malaria parasitology
Plasmodium falciparum isolation & purification
Plasmodium malariae isolation & purification
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- German
- ISSN :
- 0043-5325
- Volume :
- 112
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10890139