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This is a case report of a 24 year-old woman who is HIV-infected since three years (stage III B, CDC). She developed malaria tropica during her touristic stay in the Cameroons, Africa. No clinical complications were detectable even though she had a high parasitemia of 18% blood cells infected with Plasmodium falciparum. After quinine therapy defervescence occurred and blood smears were continuously free of malaria parasites.
P. falciparum infection may increase HIV-related immunosuppression which favours the earlier occurrence of AIDS indicative opportunistic infections. Malaria in combination with HIV-infection can lead to a higher parasitemia; this does not necessarily lead to a higher rate of complications.
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- P. falciparum:
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Plasmodium falciparum
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Weinke, T., Scherer, W. & Pohle, H.D. Malaria tropica bei HIV-Infektion. Klin Wochenschr 68, 533–536 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01648252
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