title: Concurrent meningitis and vivax malaria.
abstract: Malaria is an endemic infectious disease in India. It is often associated with other infective conditions but concomitant infection of malaria and meningitis are uncommon. We present a case of meningitis with vivax malaria infection in a 24-year-old lady. This case emphasizes the importance of high index of clinical suspicion to detect other infective conditions like meningitis when fever does not improve even after anti-malarial treatment in a patient of malaria before switching therapy suspecting drug resistance, which is quite common in this part of world.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Tuhin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Santra
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Calcutta Medical Research Institute, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Sumana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Datta
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Neha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Agrawal
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Mita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bar
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Gangarampur Subdivisional Hospital, Gangarampur, Dakshin Dinajpur, India.
authors.forename: Arnab
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kar
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, North Bengal Medical College and Hospital, Siliguri, West Bengal, India.
authors.forename: Apu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Adhikary
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Kunal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ranjan
keywords: Anti-malarial; meningitis; vivax malaria