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Complicated Malaria and Dengue During Pregnancy

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Malarial fever and dengue fever are major global health problems with about half of the world population at risk. Malaria is caused by protozoal parasite of genus Plasmodium by bite of infected female Anopheles mosquito while dengue is caused by dengue virus by bite of infected female Aedes aegypti mosquito. Pregnant patients because of their lowered immunity are at increased risk of developing the severe disease. Complicated malaria and severe dengue lead to adverse maternal and perinatal outcome including mortality. Also there is increased risk of vertical transmission in both. Parenteral artemisinin-based chemotherapy should be started without delay in severe malaria. There is no specific antiviral drug for dengue fever and treatment is mainly supportive and symptomatic. Malaria when timely and adequately treated does not have a residual deficit and the patients recover fully. In dengue fever recovery from infection provides lifelong immunity to that serotype, but subsequent infections by other serotypes increase the risk of developing severe dengue.

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  1. Department of ObGyn, GCS Medical College, Hospital and Research centre, Ahmedabad, India

    Haresh U. Doshi MD, PhD

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  1. Arihant Women’s Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

    Alpesh Gandhi

  2. Rainbow Healthcare, Agra, India

    Narendra Malhotra

  3. Art Rainbow-IVF, Agra, India

    Jaideep Malhotra

  4. Obstetrics and Gynecology, SN Medical College, Agra, India

    Nidhi Gupta

  5. Bharti Vidya Peethmedical College, Pune, India

    Neharika Malhotra Bora

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Doshi, H.U. (2016). Complicated Malaria and Dengue During Pregnancy. In: Gandhi, A., Malhotra, N., Malhotra, J., Gupta, N., Bora, N. (eds) Principles of Critical Care in Obstetrics. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2686-4_10

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