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Severe falciparum malaria: survival with oral therapy
A Sowunmi1, O Walker, J A Akindele
1Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Tropical and Geographical Medicine
|October 1, 1992
Abstract:
A case of severe falciparum hyperparasitaemia with trophozoites in greater than 35% of the patient's erythrocytes, relative lack of clinical symptoms and no organ complication is described. The patient, a 26-month old African child, was treated with oral mefloquine with prompt clearance of fever and parasitaemia in 24 and 48 hours respectively. No untoward sequelae was observed during 75 days of periodic clinical assessment.