Imported malaria with chikungunya co-infection: A case report

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Case Report

Author Details : Manodeep Sen, Pranshu Pandey, Apurva Rautela, Haniya Jafar, Vikramjeet Singh, Jaya Garg, Anupam Das*, Jyotsna Agarwal

Volume : 8, Issue : 4, Year : 2022

Article Page : 342-344

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijmmtd.2022.067

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Abstract

Malaria is a parasitic disease caused by and is associated with acute febrile episodes. The disease burden is highest in Southeast Asia. Various measures are being taken to curb the disease in different countries. Even after the introduction of various programmes there has been reports of imported malaria which has been transported from highly endemic countries to less endemic or countries not having cases of Malaria. Not only this, various other viral disease come in as coinfection with malaria which makes the situation even worse. Here we describe one such case of malaria imported from traveller from Nigeria to India who also developed coinfection with Chikungunya.
 

Keywords: Malaria, Chikungunya, Palsmodium falciparum, Imported, Coinfection

How to cite : Sen M, Pandey P, Rautela A, Jafar H, Singh V, Garg J, Das A, Agarwal J, Imported malaria with chikungunya co-infection: A case report. IP Int J Med Microbiol Trop Dis 2022;8(4):342-344

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