| Literature DB >> 35187194 |
Jessica N McCaffery1,2, Tharcisse Munyaneza3, Aline Uwimana4, Doug Nace1, Naomi Lucchi1,5, Eric S Halsey1,6, Eric Rogier1.
Abstract
We report a Plasmodium vivax infection in a Rwandan child misdiagnosed with Plasmodium falciparum and administered artemether-lumefantrine. Antigen detection revealed an absence of P falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 (HRP2) and presence of Plasmodium vivax lactate dehydrogenase. Nested and real-time polymerase chain reactions verified that the sample only contained P vivax deoxyribonucleic acid. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America 2022.Entities:
Keywords: PCR; Plasmodium vivax; microscopy; misdiagnosis; multiplex
Year: 2022 PMID: 35187194 PMCID: PMC8849279 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac025
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Open Forum Infect Dis ISSN: 2328-8957 Impact factor: 3.835