A Case of Imported Falciparum Malaria in a child.
- Author:
Young Hye JUNG
1
;
Jong Hwa HWANG
;
Hong Bae KIM
;
Weon Gyu KHO
Author Information
1. Department of Pediatrics, Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital, Pusan, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Imported malaria;
Plasmodium falcifarum;
Child
- MeSH:
Child*;
Chloroquine;
Clindamycin;
Fathers;
Humans;
Korea;
Malaria*;
Missions and Missionaries;
Quinine;
Sierra Leone
- From:Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society
1998;41(12):1731-1735
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Despite on-going efforts to control malaria, the rate of malaria has not decreased throughout the world. It was believed that endemic malaria had been eradicated in Korea since the end of the 1970s, however it reemerged from 1993 and has been increasing ever since. Besides endemic malaria, imported malaria is also increasing in Korea as the number of overseas travellers and foreign workers increases. We discovered malaria in a two-year-old child who visited Sierra Leone with his missionary father. The patient contracted malaria despite chemo-prophylaxis with chloroquine and was diagnosed as falciparum malaria by blood smear examination and IFAT. He successfully recovered after administraion of quinine and clindamycin without complication. However, the malaria did not respond quickly to chloroqine and Fansidar but a drug resistence test was not performed.
