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.

Malnutrition



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PMID (PMCID)
28589415
 FEMALE Adult
Noma in an HIV infected patient in Guinea-Bissau: a case report.
Madsen T, Medina C, Jespersen S, Wejse C, Honge BL.
Infection. 2017;45(6):897-901.
Noma is strongly associated with poverty, malnutrition and immunosuppression, and is often preceded by severe systemic infections such as measles and malaria.
22428525
 FEMALE
Management of mandibular chronic osteomyelitis using Belfast technique.
Okoje VN, Alonge TO, Obiechina AE.
Afr J Med Med Sci. 2011;40(3):283-6.
Chronic osteomyelitis is still common in developing countries like Nigeria due to the fact that conditions associated with the lowering of resistance to infections like malnutrition, malaria, anaemia, and acute eruptive fever are still prevalent in our society.
22110519
(3206509)
 OTHER
Role of nasal endoscopy in chronic osteomyelitis of maxilla and zygoma: a case report.
Arunkumar JS, Naik AS, Prasad KC, Santhosh SG.
Case Rep Med. 2011;2011:802964.
Factors like viral fevers, malnutrition, malaria, anemia,tobacco chewing, immunodeficiency, osteopetrosis, Paget's disease of bone, and florid cemento-osseous dysplasia (FCOD) result in decreased vascularity of the affected bone, predisposing to the development of osteomyelitis.