| Literature DB >> 35854985 |
Colleen M Leonard1, Jimee Hwang2, Ashenafi Assefa3, Rose Zulliger4, Baltazar Candrinho5, Pedro Rafael Dimbu6, Abuchahama Saifodine4, Mateusz Plucinski2, Eric Rogier1.
Abstract
The majority of symptomatic malaria in sub-Saharan Africa is caused by Plasmodium falciparum. Infection with Plasmodium ovale is often not recorded and not considered clinically relevant. Here, we describe 8 cases of P ovale infection from 3 African countries-all of which were misdiagnosed at the presenting health facility. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America 2022. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.Entities:
Keywords: Plasmodium ovale; diagnosis; malaria; rapid diagnostic tests
Year: 2022 PMID: 35854985 PMCID: PMC9290565 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac261
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Open Forum Infect Dis ISSN: 2328-8957 Impact factor: 4.423