Complication of corticosteroid treatment by acute Plasmodium malariae infection confirmed by small-subunit rRNA sequencing

Kelvin K.W. To; Jade L.L. Teng; Samson S.Y. Wong; Antonio H.Y. Ngan; Kwok Yung Yuen; Patrick C.Y. Woo

doi:10.1128/JCM.00463-10

Complication of corticosteroid treatment by acute Plasmodium malariae infection confirmed by small-subunit rRNA sequencing

Kelvin K.W. To, Jade L.L. Teng, Samson S.Y. Wong, Antonio H.Y. Ngan, Kwok Yung Yuen, Patrick C.Y. Woo

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We report a case of acute Plasmodium malariae infection complicating corticosteroid treatment for membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in a patient from an area where P. malariae infection is not endemic. A peripheral blood smear showed typical band-form trophozoites compatible with P. malariae or Plasmodium knowlesi. SSU rRNA sequencing confirmed the identity to be P. malariae.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4313-4316
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Volume	48
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00463-10
Publication status	Published - Nov 2010
Externally published	Yes

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Complication of corticosteroid treatment by acute Plasmodium malariae infection confirmed by small-subunit rRNA sequencing

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