Indigestion or infection? Unusual presentations of malaria in general practice.
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.
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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