[Clinical characteristics of tertian malaria in the population of Kyrgyzstan under repeated outbreak of the disease].
In the period of an epidemic outbreak, tertian malaria is registered at a high rate among children, which has a characteristic sign of local transmission via malaria mosquitoes. The case histories of 66 patients with tertian malaria, including 27 children aged 10 months to 15 years, treated at the infection unit of Tashkumyr town hospital in July to August 2006, were the subject of this investigation. In childhood malaria, the specific feature of feverish paroxysm is daily fever with evident symptoms of intoxication and signs of neurotoxicosis.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001247:Asthenia / Q000469:parasitology / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005334:Fever / Q000469:parasitology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007707:Kyrgyzstan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008288:Malaria / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008499:Medical Records; D020258:Neurotoxicity Syndromes / Q000469:parasitology / Q000503:physiopathology; D012189:Retrospective Studies