Severe Plasmodium vivax Malaria in Pakistan
- Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
- Sobia Nizami
- Afsheen Raza
- Vikram Mehraj
- Anita Fazal Rasheed
- Najia Karim Ghanchi
- Zahra Nur Khaled
- M. Asim Beg
Publication date
November 2013
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
To compare the severity of Plasmodium vivax malaria with that of P. falciparum malaria, we conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study of 356 adults hospitalized with malaria (2009–2011) in Pakistan. P. vivax and P. falciparum accounted for 83% and 13% of cases, respectively; 79.9% of patients with severe malaria were infected with P. vivax
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