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Concurrent meningitis and vivax malaria

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العنوان: Concurrent meningitis and vivax malaria
المؤلفون: Tuhin Santra, Sumana Datta, Neha Agrawal, Mita Bar, Arnab Kar, Apu Adhikary, Kunal Ranjan
المصدر: Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Vol 4, Iss 4, Pp 594-595 (2015)
بيانات النشر: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2015.
سنة النشر: 2015
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
مصطلحات موضوعية: Anti-malarial, meningitis, vivax malaria, Medicine
الوصف: Malaria is an endemic infectious disease in India. It is often associated with other infective conditions but concomitant infection of malaria and meningitis are uncommon. We present a case of meningitis with vivax malaria infection in a 24-year-old lady. This case emphasizes the importance of high index of clinical suspicion to detect other infective conditions like meningitis when fever does not improve even after anti-malarial treatment in a patient of malaria before switching therapy suspecting drug resistance, which is quite common in this part of world.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2249-4863
Relation: http://www.jfmpc.com/article.asp?issn=2249-4863;year=2015;volume=4;issue=4;spage=594;epage=595;aulast=Santra; https://doaj.org/toc/2249-4863
DOI: 10.4103/2249-4863.174301
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/1d96049544924758a44a37b8081d36d9
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.1d96049544924758a44a37b8081d36d9
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:22494863
DOI:10.4103/2249-4863.174301