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A Case of Malaria Predisposing to Bacteremia in a Returning Traveler from Nigeria.
Case Rep Infect Dis
September 2018
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Rutledge Avenue, MSC 752, Charleston, SC, USA.
We describe a febrile adult returning to the U.S. from Nigeria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpontaneous splenic rupture in typhomalaria: A case report with review of literature.
Sudan J Paediatr
January 2017
Department of Radiology, Subharti medical college, Meerut, UP, India.
Plasmodium vivax, which was previously considered 'benign', has come out with unusual severe symptoms. We, here present an unusual case of Plasmodium vivax malaria presenting with spontaneous splenic rupture with hemoperitoneum, renal and pulmonary dysfunction. Following conservative management, there was an uneventful recovery, and the patient was discharged in a good general condition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTyphoid fever vs. malaria in a febrile returning traveler: typhomalaria revisited--an Oslerian perspective.
Travel Med Infect Dis
September 2013
Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY 11501, USA.
Diagnostic efforts are usually centered on malaria in febrile travelers returning from the tropics. However, by focusing on malaria other important diagnostic considerations are easily overlooked. Patients returning from malarial areas are also exposed to other tropical diseases which have features in common with malaria, e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBrief history of the clinical diagnosis of malaria: from Hippocrates to Osler.
J Vector Borne Dis
September 2008
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, USA.
Since antiquity, malaria had a major impact on world history but this brief historical overview focuses on clinical features of malaria from Hippocrates to Osler. In antiquity, physicians tried to differentiate malaria from other acute fevers. The classic descriptions of malaria by Hippocrates in ancient Greece and Celsus in ancient Rome are excerpted here from the original Greek and Latin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOsler on typhoid fever: differentiating typhoid from typhus and malaria.
Infect Dis Clin North Am
March 2004
Early in the history of medicine, physician had a difficult time differentiating acute febrile illnesses without localizing signs. Typhoid fever and malaria share common features, which caused diagnostic problems during the 1800s. Physician even introduced a new term, typho-malaria, a testimony to their diagnostic confusion.
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