Year: 1987
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: THE DIAGNOSIS OF MALARIA is frequently missed in the United States because its symptoms are nonspecific and its onset is uncommon in this country.The disease occurs most commonly in people who have acquired it from an endemic area.Therefore, to diagnose malaria, a travel history must be obtained.In many regions of the country, especially the West, it is common to meet patients whose travel history includes Mexico.Malaria may be overlooked, however, as a cause of febrile illness in this group.The following cases show the need to consider Mexico as a possible source of malaria. Reports of Cases Case 1The patient, a 19-year-old man, came to the emergency department because he had had fever and chills for four days.He was raised in Patizingan, Mexico.He had arrived in the United States three months earlier after traveling by bus from Mexico City to Tijuana and then on to San Diego and East Palo Alto, California.The patient had a transient flulike ill- (Brillman J: Plasmodium vivax malaria from Mexico-A problem in the United States.
Source: PubMed Central
Author: J Brillman
Language: English
Topic: Malaria Research and Control
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W31853256