Clínica de la malaria complicada debida a P. falciparum;: Estudio de casos y controles en Tumaco y Turbo (Colombia)
2006; Universidad de Antioquia; Volume: 19; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2011-7965
AutoresAlberto Tobón-Castaño, Juan Gabriel Piñeros, Silvia Blair, Jaime Carmona‐Fonseca,
Tópico(s)Mosquito-borne diseases and control
ResumoB ACKGROUND : Latin American studies on severe falciparum malaria are scarce, therefore, the pattern of complications of the region is uknown. O BJECTIVES . To identify characterize severe malaria in patients from Tumaco (Narino) and Turbo (Antioquia) in Colombia. M ETHODS . The 2000 World Health Organization criteria for complicated malaria were applied in a cases and controls study. R ESULTS . 64 cases ( P falciparum complicated malaria) and 135 controls ( P falciparum uncomplicated malaria) were included. The time of evolution of the disease (mean 5.6 days in cases and 5.9 in the controls) and the frequency of most symptoms were similar in both groups (p>0.05). However, respiratory distress and jaundice was more frequent in the cases (p
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