[Malaria tropica in HIV infection].
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.
Universitätsklinikum Rudolf Virchow, Freie Universität Berlin, II. Medizinische Klinik, Berlin.
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D000818:Animals; D002163:Cameroon; D005260:Female; D015483:HIV Antibodies / Q000032:analysis; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000150:complications*; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014195:Travel
D015483:HIV Antibodies
Malaria tropica bei HIV-Infektion.