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A Simple Protocol for Platelet-mediated Clumping of Plasmodium falciparum-infected Erythrocytes in a Resource Poor Setting
Published on: May 16, 2013
Varied presentation of complicated falciparum malaria in a family
M Sanklecha1, N Mehta, H Bagban
1Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Mumbai, India. doctormukesh@gmail.com
Indian Pediatrics
|June 16, 2012
Abstract:
Plasmodium falciparum is known for complications with a very high mortality. We report three cases in children of the same family, two of them developed ARDS, one of them died, the third child developed hemophagocytosis and one of them also had transient myocarditis, all unusual complications of falciparum malaria.
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