Vol 88, No 10 (2017)
Clinical vignette
Published online: 2017-10-31
The course of pregnancy and delivery in a patient with malaria
Abstract
Malaria is one of the most common lethal parasitic diseases. Infection is transmitted when an infected female mosquito bites a human introducing the sporozoites into human blood. The article presents the course of pregnancy and delivery in a patient complicated by Plasmodium infection. The patient had repetitive several trips to Tanzania over a short time period before she developed the condition. She had been taking antimalarial medication (proguanil-atovaquone) in a prophylactic dose during and after her first travel to Tanzania. Following her first return to Poland she experienced infection-related symptoms.
Keywords: pregnancymalariaPlasmodium falciparumtreatmentdiagnosis
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