Open AccessThrombocytopenia in malaria patients from an arid region of Western Rajasthan (India)
Author(s) -
Yashik Bansal,
Vinod Kumar Maurya,
Nidhima Aggarwal,
Vibhor Tak,
Vijaya Lakshmi Nag,
Abhishek Purohit,
Akhil Dhanesh Goel,
Gopal Krishna 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 .