Mystery of blackwater fever from an Australian perspective
1Australian Defence Force Infectious Disease and Malaria Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Internal Medicine Journal
|April 14, 2022
Abstract:
Blackwater fever is a haemolytic syndrome associated with malaria that coincided with the use of quinine chemoprophylaxis. Once quinine was no longer chronically used to prevent malaria, blackwater fever largely disappeared and its aetiology remains poorly understood. Blackwater fever is representative of classical tropical medicine and its history was reflected in Australia's colonial development of Papua New Guinea particularly as reported in the Australian medical literature.
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