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Published on: February 17, 2014
Pseudo-borreliosis in patients with malaria
Stephen A Berger1, Liora David
1Departments of Geographic Medicine and Internal Medicine G, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. mberger@post.tau.ac.il
Abstract:
Malaria and relapsing fever are arthropod-borne infections characterized by fever, myalgia, headache, and a tendency to relapse. Both are diagnosed through examination of stained blood films, and both might respond to tetracycline therapy. In at least four published case reports, the presence of malarial microgametes possibly resulted in misdiagnosis of borreliosis in patients with malaria. An additional case is presented, and the mechanism of microgamete production in clinical specimens is discussed.
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