کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
6124195 1219965 2011 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Acute febrile hepato-renal dysfunction in the tropics: co-infection of malaria and leptospirosis
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری ایمنی شناسی و میکروب شناسی میکروبیولوژی و بیوتکنولوژی کاربردی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Acute febrile hepato-renal dysfunction in the tropics: co-infection of malaria and leptospirosis
چکیده انگلیسی
Malaria and leptospirosis are both common in the tropics. Simultaneous infections are possible, although not frequently reported. We report two cases of malaria from India with compelling serologic evidence of coexistent acute leptospirosis. One was a case of infection with Plasmodium falciparum with acute and convalescent microscopic agglutination test titers for Leptospira serovar icterohaemorrhagiae of 1:200 and 1:1600, respectively. The other was a case of infection with Plasmodium vivax that seroconverted to a titer of 1:3200 for Leptospira serovar batavia. Both patients finally improved with cephalosporins and doxycycline after no significant clinical/biochemical improvement with antimalarials standalone. It is proposed that febrile patients with hepato-renal dysfunction should be considered possible co-infection of malaria and leptospirosis.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy - Volume 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 694-697
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