Falciparum Malaria

Infection Often Misdiagnosed in American Emergency Rooms

Published in Malaria Weekly, July 8th, 1996

Patients with falciparum malaria who come to emergency rooms in the U.S. are frequently misdiagnosed, possibly because physicians failed to consider a patient's travel history, according to a report in the June 1996 issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine (Ann Emerg Med 1996;27:696-699).

Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the Travel Medical Center in Beverly Hills, California, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London, United Kingdom, reviewed the travel histories, clinical presentations, laboratory findings and outcomes of 20 patients with malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum. These patients represent...

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