[A case of neonatal malaria in Spain].
We report a case of neonatal malaria born in Spain. It is about a female newborn whose mother lived the first eight months of her pregnancy in Ecuatorial Guinea. Although our patient was well, in the third week of her life she developed fever mostly in mornings without any other symptoms except pallor. She kept a good physical state in any moment. In complementary proves we remark: anaemia and thrombocytopenia; as well Plasmodium falciparum ruin was found in blood smears. Treatment with mefloquine was successfully, blood smears was negative of parasites in the eighth day and hemogram was restoring normal. This article suggests neonatal malaria must be considered in those newborns suspected congenital infection born from mothers who have travelled to risk countries or immigrated from endemic areas. Also we remark that malaria clinic development in newborns is nonspecific and indistinguishable from other congenital infections.
Romero Urbano
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JM
Hospital Materno-Infantil, Málaga.
Vázquez López
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Jurado Ortiz
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Martínez Valverde
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016778:Malaria, Falciparum / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013030:Spain; D014195:Travel