Armed Forces Research Inst., Bangkok
Thrombocytopenia indicates malaria in febrile patients
Published in Healthcare Finance, Tax and Law Weekly, March 24th, 2004
In a recent study, scientists in Thailand evaluated the "hematologic profiles of persons with acute Plasmodium falciparum or P. vivax infection in Maesod on Thailand's western border with Myanmar compared with febrile, non-parasitemic persons also reporting to malaria clinics."
"Nine hundred seventy-nine subjects were malaria-negative, 414 were infected with P. falciparum, and 646 were infected with P. vivax," noted L.M. Erhart and coauthors at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangkok.
"Persons with...
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