Open AccessConcurrent meningitis and vivax malaria
Author(s) -
Tuhin Subhra Santra,
Sumana Datta,
Neha Agrawal,
Mita Bar,
Arnab Kar,
Apu Adhikary,
Kunal Ranjan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/2249-4863.174301
Subject(s) - medicine , malaria , meningitis , drug resistance , infectious disease (medical specialty) , plasmodium vivax , vivax malaria , plasmodium falciparum , disease , intensive care medicine , immunology , pediatrics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Malaria is an endemic infectious disease in India. It is often associated with other infective conditions but concomitant infection of malaria and meningitis are uncommon. We present a case of meningitis with vivax malaria infection in a 24-year-old lady. This case emphasizes the importance of high index of clinical suspicion to detect other infective conditions like meningitis when fever does not improve even after anti-malarial treatment in a patient of malaria before switching therapy suspecting drug resistance, which is quite common in this part of world.