title: A pregnant Japanese woman returning from Africa with recurrent fevers.
abstract: Certain clinical aspects of vivax malaria are no longer defined as benign. We present a case of vivax malaria with three relapses in a pregnant Japanese woman who had returned to Japan from the Comoros Islands in East Africa. Data on the successful delivery, examination of Duffy-blood group antigen, and microscopic findings of growing stages of Plasmodium vivax are thought to be of considerable interest.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Iida Municipal Hospital, Yawatacho 438, Iida, Japan.
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tsukadaira
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sekiguchi
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ashida
authors.forename: Chinatsu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Murashita
authors.forename: Nobuo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: Mikiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kagoshima
authors.forename: Yoshitaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
keywords: Duffy-blood group; pregnancy; vivax malaria