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A pregnant Japanese woman returning from Africa with recurrent fevers

Author(s) -

Akihiro Tsukadaira,

Sekiguchi,

Ashida,

Murashita,

Itho,

Kobayashi,

Kagoshima,

Yamazaki

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

international medical case reports journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.198

H-Index - 11

ISSN - 1179-142X

DOI - 10.2147/imcrj.s26997

Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , family medicine , traditional medicine , obstetrics , pediatrics , biology , genetics

Certain clinical aspects of vivax malaria are no longer defined as benign. We present a case of vivax malaria with three relapses in a pregnant Japanese woman who had returned to Japan from the Comoros Islands in East Africa. Data on the successful delivery, examination of Duffy-blood group antigen, and microscopic findings of growing stages of Plasmodium vivax are thought to be of considerable interest.

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