Acute respiratory distress syndrome due to vivax malaria: case report and literature review

Severe pulmonary involvement in malaria has been frequently reported in cases of Plasmodium falciparum infection, but rarely in vivax malaria. Among the 11 previous cases of vivax-related severe respiratory involvement described in the literature, all except one developed it after the beginning of a...

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Main Authors: André V. Lomar, José E. Vidal, Frederico P. Lomar, Carmen Valente Barbas, Gustavo Janot de Matos, Marcos Boulos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702005000500011&lng=en&tlng=en