A Case of Plasmodium falciparum Gametocytemia Successfully Treated with Primaquine.
- Author:
In Bum SUH
1
;
Do Kyung YOON
;
Chae Seung LIM
Author Information
1. Department of Clinical Pathology, Familly Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Plasmodium falciparum;
Gametocytemia;
Primaquine;
Mefloquine
- MeSH:
Female;
Humans;
Mefloquine;
Plasmodium falciparum*;
Plasmodium*;
Primaquine*;
Tanzania
- From:Korean Journal of Infectious Diseases
2001;33(4):302-304
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We experienced a case of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytemia successfully treated with primaquine in a twenty seven-years old woman. The patient had been admitted due to general malaise after diagosis and treatment of P. falciparum at Tanzania one month ago. On microscopic examination, P. falciparum gametocytemia was seen and treated with mefloquine for one week but gametocytemia was not disappeared. After primaquine treatment for two weeks, she was successfully treated.
