Publication Date
2020
Journal Title
Cureus
Abstract
With increased global travel, unique diseases from different parts of the world pose a new category of differential diagnosis, and an incubation period of different infectious diseases helps narrow differential diagnosis to point to one specific etiology. The normal incubation period of Plasmodium falciparum malariais 7-40 days. We report a case of symptomatic P. falciparum malaria that manifested four years after a visit to a malaria-endemic area in a 51-year-old female patient. Our case illustrates the importance of a broad differential with regard to infectious disease including remote travel history and raises questions of the survival of P. falciparum for four years despite the administration of traditional chemoprophylactic agents.
Volume Number
12
Issue Number
3
Pages
e7176
Document Type
Article
Status
Faculty
Facility
School of Medicine
Primary Department
Hospital Medicine
PMID
DOI
10.7759/cureus.7176