title: Indigestion or infection? Unusual presentations of malaria in general practice.
abstract: Two cases of vivax malaria which presented atypically as abdominal pain are described. They highlight the need to consider malaria in the differential diagnosis of any acute febrile illness in a patient returning from an endemic malarial area.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Fleetcroft
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D010966:Plasmodium vivax