Acute respiratory distress syndrome and Plasmodium ovale malaria

A 56-year old patient was admitted to the emergency department for an hyperthermia (39  °C) evolving for 8 days. He had a long history of travels to Africa, the latest in Liberia, Ivory Coast and Senegal, but had not left France for the last 14 months. Malaria prevention was based on vector control. Chemoprophylaxis was nonsystematic. A thoracic-abdominal-pelvic scan conducted the day before admission had shown no septic focus.
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research