title: Congenital malaria in newborn twins.
abstract: A 28-year-old woman (G2P1A), with 36 weeks gestation, reported to a health facility in Sunyani on 22(nd) February 2009 with history of labour pains, without fever. She was reported to have taken sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for malaria prophylaxis during the pregnancy but did not use insecticide-treated net. She delivered twins on the same day. The mother and the twins developed fever on the same day. A laboratory investigation on the three of them was positive for malaria parasites. The three were successfully treated with quinine. Congenital malaria is real and it is therefore recommended that babies born to mothers with malaria should be screened for congenital malaria.
authors: Sunyani Municipal Health Directorate: P. O. Box 311, Sunyani. B/A Region, Ghana. oparedavid@yahoo.co.uk
authors: D A
authors: DA
authors: Opare
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004200:Diseases in Twins / Q000151:congenital* / Q000188:drug therapy; D004338:Drug Combinations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008288:Malaria / Q000151:congenital* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000517:prevention & control; D008297:Male; D057147:Mosquito Nets; D011247:Pregnancy; D015597:Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000517:prevention & control; D011739:Pyrimethamine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011803:Quinine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D013413:Sulfadoxine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014430:Twins, Monozygotic
chemical_list: D004338:Drug Combinations; C001205:fanasil, pyrimethamine drug combination; D013413:Sulfadoxine; D011803:Quinine; D011739:Pyrimethamine
keywords: apgar score; congenital malaria; intermittent preventive treatment
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