[Gastrointestinal symptoms predominant in refugee children with malaria].
We present three cases of malaria in refugee children newly arrived from Sub-saharan Africa. Only one of the three children had fever and all had high parasite loads (2,5-14% parasitemia). Malaria is an important differential diagnosis in refugees from endemic areas, regardless of whether they present with fever.
St-Martin
Gry
G
Aalborg Sygehus, Klinisk Mikrobiologisk Afdeling. gry.stm@gmail.com
Thusgaard
Mikkel
M
Simonsen
Hanne Marie
HM
Højbjerg
Tove
T
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003718:Denmark; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D016778:Malaria, Falciparum / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D012036:Refugees; D013397:Sudan / Q000208:ethnology