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Case Reports
. 1990 May 17;68(10):533-6.
doi: 10.1007/BF01648252.

[Malaria tropica in HIV infection]

[Article in German]
T Weinke  1 , W Scherer, H D Pohle
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Case Reports

[Malaria tropica in HIV infection]

[Article in German]
T Weinke et al. Klin Wochenschr. .

Abstract

This is a case report of a 24 year-old woman who is HIV-infected since three years (stage III B, CDC). She developed malaria tropica during her touristic stay in the Cameroons, Africa. No clinical complications were detectable even though she had a high parasitemia of 18% blood cells infected with Plasmodium falciparum. After quinine therapy defervescence occurred and blood smears were continuously free of malaria parasites. P. falciparum infection may increase HIV-related immunosuppression which favours the earlier occurrence of AIDS indicative opportunistic infections. Malaria in combination with HIV-infection can lead to a higher parasitemia; this does not necessarily lead to a higher rate of complications.

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