Cerebral malaria and mixed falciparum-vivax infections.
Of the seventy cases of cerebral malaria seen at the Duchess of Kent Hospital, Sandakan between January 1984 and June 1986, 57 (81.4%) were due to plasmodia falciparum and 13 (18.6%) were due to mixed p. vivax--p. falciparum infections. Mixed infection cerebral malaria was associated with a more severe anaemia and may carry a poorer prognosis. Indigenous children under five years of age are particularly at risk of death from mixed infections.
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Department of Medicine, Duchess of Kent Hospital, Sabah, Malaysia.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000401:mortality* / Q000469:parasitology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000401:mortality*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum; D010966:Plasmodium vivax; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies