Malaria: a new facet of heroin addiction in Australia.
A case of vivax malaria is described. The patient, who had occasionally abused heroin intravenously, shared injection equipment with an addict who had previously contracted malaria in Southeast Asia and who had failed to complete an adequate course of treatment.
D000328:Adult; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000635:transmission*; D008297:Male; D009339:Needles; D010966:Plasmodium vivax