Cerebral involvement in benign tertian malaria

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Report

Department

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Abstract

Although Plasmodium vivax usually causes benign uncomplicated malaria, it can occasionally result in severe disease with life-threatening, end-organ involvement generally seen with falciparum malaria. We report a case of cerebral malaria caused by P. vivax and review the literature on this subject.

Publication (Name of Journal)

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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