Malaria

A life-threatening parasitic disease caused by <i>Plasmodium</i> (<i>P. </i>) parasites that are transmitted by <i>Anophles</i> mosquito bites to humans and is typically clinically characterized by attacks of fever, headache, chills and vomiting.

Meningitis

Inflammation of the meninges.


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PMID (PMCID)
27412983
MALE
Child abuse: an underestimated health problem? A case report from Cameroon.
Nguefack F, Awa DM, Dongmo R, Mballa JC, Nguefack S.
Med Sante Trop. 2016;26(2):216-20.
He was treated erroneously for severe malaria and then for meningitis because he presented with neurologic signs, before the diagnosis of child abuse was made.
26938933
MALE Young Adult
Louse-Borne Relapsing Fever with Meningeal Involvement in an Immigrant from Somalia to Italy, October 2015.
Zammarchi L, Antonelli A, Bartolini L, Pecile P, Trotta M, Rogasi PG, Santini MG, Dilaghi B, Grifoni S, Rossolini GM, Bartoloni A.
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2016;16(5):352-5.
Suspecting a possible meningitis, the patient was treated with ceftriaxone, pending results of laboratory testing for malaria, and developed severe hypotension that was treated with fluid resuscitation and hydrocortisone.
26985423
(4776616)
OTHER
Concurrent meningitis and vivax malaria.
Santra T, Datta S, Agrawal N, Bar M, Kar A, Adhikary A, Ranjan K.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2015;4(4):594-5.
This case emphasizes the importance of high index of clinical suspicion to detect other infective conditions like meningitis when fever does not improve even after anti-malarial treatment in a patient of malaria before switching therapy suspecting drug resistance, which is quite common in this part of world.
26985423
(4776616)
OTHER
Concurrent meningitis and vivax malaria.
Santra T, Datta S, Agrawal N, Bar M, Kar A, Adhikary A, Ranjan K.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2015;4(4):594-5.
It is often associated with other infective conditions but concomitant infection of malaria and meningitis are uncommon.
26985423
(4776616)
OTHER
Concurrent meningitis and vivax malaria.
Santra T, Datta S, Agrawal N, Bar M, Kar A, Adhikary A, Ranjan K.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2015;4(4):594-5.
Concurrent meningitis and vivax malaria.
26985423
(4776616)
OTHER
Concurrent meningitis and vivax malaria.
Santra T, Datta S, Agrawal N, Bar M, Kar A, Adhikary A, Ranjan K.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2015;4(4):594-5.
We present a case of meningitis with vivax malaria infection in a 24-year-old lady.
21455907
MALE Adult
Altered mental status in a U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier.
Brandon J, Hill GJ.
J Spec Oper Med. 2011;11(1):27-9.
Potential diagnoses include meningitis, encephalitis, malaria and many others.
15827291
FEMALE Adult
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis following Plasmodium falciparum malaria caused by varicella zoster virus reactivation.
Lademann M, Gabelin P, Lafrenz M, Wernitz C, Ehmke H, Schmitz H, Reisinger EC.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2005;72(4):478-80.
Neurologic complications in the course of Plasmodium falciparum infections are commonly diagnosed as cerebral malaria, but bacterial or viral meningitis may exhibit similar symptoms.
14693480
MALE Middle Aged
[Intracranial tuberculoma in Africa, with no available neuroimaging. Case report and review of the literature].
Zoguereh DD, Andrieux C, Abakar A, Robineau M.
Sante. 2003;13(3):183-90.
Treatments for maxillary sinusitis, the malaria, bacterial meningitis, and cerebral abscess were equally ineffective.
7871399
MIXED_SAMPLE Child
[The traveler returning from the tropics in clinical practice].
Markwalder K, Hatz C, Raeber PA.
Schweiz Med Wochenschr. 1995;125(5):163-70.
bacterial meningitis, falciparum malaria, septicemia (including typhoid fever), extraintestinal amebiasis, and African trypanosomiasis.
7935735
MALE
Cryptococcal meningitis with malaria. A case report.
Ashiru JO, Akang EE.
Mycopathologia. 1994;127(1):15-7.
The most common causes of meningitis in Nigeria in the 2-3 year age group are the malaria parasites and bacteria.