RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Thrombocytopenia and <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria in children with different exposures
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 540
OP 541
DO 10.1136/adc.88.6.540
VO 88
IS 6
A1 F Moulin
A1 F Lesage
A1 A-H Legros
A1 C Maroga
A1 A Moussavou
A1 P Guyon
A1 E Marc
A1 D Gendrel
YR 2003
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/88/6/540.abstract
AB We studied thrombocytopenia during acute Plasmodium falciparum malaria in 64 traveller children from Paris (France), 85 children from Dakar (Senegal) with an intermittent exposure (69 with severe attack or cerebral malaria), and 81 children from Libreville (Gabon) with a perennial exposure (43 with severe attack or cerebral malaria). Initial thrombocytopenia was present in 43–58% of children with P falciparum malaria but was not more frequent in severe outcome or cerebral malaria. Low parasitaemia may lead to the misdiagnosis of malaria and delayed treatment when there is associated thrombocytopenia