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. 2012 Jul 30:5:154.
doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-154.

Severe Plasmodium vivax malaria among sudanese children at New Halfa Hospital, Eastern Sudan

Hyder Mahgoub, Gasim I Gasim, Imad R Musa, Ishag Adam

Severe Plasmodium vivax malaria among sudanese children at New Halfa Hospital, Eastern Sudan

Hyder Mahgoub et al. Parasit Vectors. .

Abstract

Background: There are few published reports on severe Plasmodium vivax malaria in Africa.

Methods: Clinical pattern/manifestations of severe P. vivax were described in children admitted at New Halfa Hospital in Sudan between September 2009-December 2011.

Results: Eighteen children were admitted at the hospital during the study period with different manifestations of severe P. vivax malaria namely: severe anaemia (6, 33.3%), jaundice (5, 27.8%), thrombocytopenia (4, 22.2%), hypotension (3, 16.7%), cerebral malaria (2, 11.1%), epistaxis (2, 11.1%), renal impairment (1, 5.5%), hypogylcaemia and more than one manifestation (5, 27.8%).

Conclusion: Severe P. vivax malaria is an existing entity in eastern Sudan. Further studies are required to understand emergence of severe P. vivax malaria.

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