A mixed malaria infection: is Plasmodium vivax good for you?
J Whitehorn;
C Coltart;
D Manser;
T Doherty;
(2009)
A mixed malaria infection: is Plasmodium vivax good for you?
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 104 (3).
pp. 240-241.
ISSN 0035-9203
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.08.004
We describe a case of mixed malaria infection in a returning traveller. We suggest that our patient had a chronic infection with Plasmodium vivax, which reduced the severity of an acute infection with P. falciparum-an example of cross-species immunity.
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