[Gastrointestinal symptoms predominant in refugee children with malaria].

Ugeskr Laeger

Aalborg Sygehus, Klinisk Mikrobiologisk Afdeling.

Published: September 2009

We present three cases of malaria in refugee children newly arrived from Sub-saharan Africa. Only one of the three children had fever and all had high parasite loads (2,5-14% parasitemia). Malaria is an important differential diagnosis in refugees from endemic areas, regardless of whether they present with fever.

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