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AN AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE WITH MALARIA
Author(s) -
George C. R. P.,
O'Neill B. J.,
Garth J. M.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1971.tb88073.x
Subject(s) - malaria , plasmodium vivax , vivax malaria , malarial parasites , medicine , parasite hosting , plasmodium falciparum , immunology , computer science , world wide web
The clinical and laboratory findings In 48 cases of malaria treated in a single hospital are described. The commonest infecting parasite was Plasmodium vivax, and the largest group of patients came from South Vietnam. A therapeutic regime is suggested, and the importance of completing this as a supervised in‐patient in order to prevent the recurrence of malaria is Illustrated.