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A pregnant Japanese woman returning from Africa with recurrent fevers

Akihiro Tsukadaira1, Tomohiro Sekiguchi, Takashi Ashida

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Iida Municipal Hospital, Yawatacho 438, Iida, Japan.

International Medical Case Reports Journal
|June 12, 2013
PubMed

Certain clinical aspects of vivax malaria are no longer defined as benign. We present a case of vivax malaria with three relapses in a pregnant Japanese woman who had returned to Japan from the Comoros Islands in East Africa. Data on the successful delivery, examination of Duffy-blood group antigen, and microscopic findings of growing stages of Plasmodium vivax are thought to be of considerable interest.

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Duffy-blood grouppregnancyvivax malaria

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