Infections in Medicine
Volume 20, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 445-447

Polyparasitemia in two adolescent immigrants from the Congo (Article)

Nguyen Q.V.* , Olson B.G. , Forbes B.A.
  • a Division of Infectious Diseases, State Univ. NY Upstate Medical Univ., Syracuse, NY, United States
  • b Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, State Univ. NY Upstate Medical Univ., Syracuse, NY, United States
  • c Department of Clinical Pathology, State Univ. of NY Upstate Med. Univ., Syracuse, NY, United States

Abstract

Two African children who immigrated to the United States were found to be coinfected with Plasmodium and microfilaria. Repeated blood smear examinations and malaria polymerase chain reaction assay were required to confirm the diagnosis. This is believed to be the first report to describe imported polyparasitemia in the United States.

Author Keywords

Mansonella perstans Plasmodium falciparum Parasitemia

Index Keywords

pyrimethamine immigrant Escherichia coli Entamoeba histolytica follow up human immigration acetylsalicylic acid blood smear chill Congo doxycycline laboratory test United States Treatment Outcome Adolescent male mebendazole case report antimalarial agent female headache Africa diagnostic test polymerase chain reaction Article Parasitemia superinfection fever Microfilaria malaria falciparum Plasmodium falciparum glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency Mansonella perstans glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase quinine sulfate Fatigue microfilariasis
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ISSN: 07496524
Original Language: English