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Profound thrombocytopenia in Plasmodium vivax malaria
1Department of Internal Medicine, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi, India.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|January 8, 2000
Abstract:
In India, malaria is endemic and commonly caused by Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum. Thrombocytopenia is a common finding in falciparum infection but is rare in P. vivax infection. We report profound thrombocytopenia in a 43-year-old female patient due to P. vivax infection. The platelet count was as low as 5 x 10(9)/liter, such severe thrombocytopenia has never been reported in vivax malaria.