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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 594-595 |
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Concurrent meningitis and vivax malaria
Tuhin Santra1, Sumana Datta2, Neha Agrawal1, Mita Bar1, Arnab Kar3, Apu Adhikary4, Kunal Ranjan1
1 Department of Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, India
2 Department of Family Medicine, Calcutta Medical Research Institute, Kolkata, India
3 Department of Medicine, Gangarampur Subdivisional Hospital, Gangarampur, Dakshin Dinajpur, India
4 Department of Medicine, North Bengal Medical College and Hospital, Siliguri, West Bengal, India
Correspondence Address:
Sumana Datta
34 P/2, Suren Sarkar Road, Ground Floor, Kolkata - 700 010
India
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DOI: 10.4103/2249-4863.174301
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Malaria is an endemic infectious disease in India. It is often associated with other infective conditions but concomitant infection of malaria and meningitis are uncommon. We present a case of meningitis with vivax malaria infection in a 24-year-old lady. This case emphasizes the importance of high index of clinical suspicion to detect other infective conditions like meningitis when fever does not improve even after anti-malarial treatment in a patient of malaria before switching therapy suspecting drug resistance, which is quite common in this part of world. |
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