Thrombocytopenia in malaria patients from an arid region of Western Rajasthan (India) | Zendy

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Thrombocytopenia in malaria patients from an arid region of Western Rajasthan (India)

Author(s) -

Vibhor Tak,

Yashik Bansal,

Vinod Kumar Maurya,

Nidhima Aggarwal,

VijayaLakshmi Nag,

Abhishek Purohit,

Akhil Dhanesh Goel,

GopalKrishna Bohra,

Kuldeep Singh

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

tropical parasitology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.418

H-Index - 11

eISSN - 2229-7758

pISSN - 2229-5070

DOI - 10.4103/tp.tp_68_19

Subject(s) - malaria , medicine , plasmodium vivax , odds ratio , plasmodium falciparum , epidemiology , platelet , confidence interval , immunology , retrospective cohort study

The arid climate of Western Rajasthan is challenging for malaria transmission, with the number of cases correlating directly with the annual rainfall pattern. Moreover, >90% of the cases in this region are caused by Plasmodium vivax , which has recently been shown to cause a similar degree of thrombocytopenia as Plasmodium falciparum .

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