Infectious diseases

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Malaria + protective factors

disease caused by Plasmodium protozoa → spread via female mosquitos (4 different species)

  • Plasmodium falciparum → severe

  • Plasmodium vivax → most common, benign

protective factors: sickle-cell trait, G6PD deficiency, HLA-B53, absent Duffy antigens

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Malaria presentations

  • flu-like px: headache, myalgia, anorexia

  • fever +/- chills (RBC rupture = pyrogenic cytokines released)

  • splenomegaly

  • jaundice

  • pallor

  • severe: altered consciousness/seizures, respiratory distress, hypotension, haemoglobunuria


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Malaria fever patterns

  • Falciparum: irregular fever

  • Vivax / ovale: cyclical tertian pattern (every 48 hours)

  • Malariae: cyclical quartan pattern (every 72 hours)


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Malaria investigations + treatment

Blood film (gold standard)

  • thick → sensitive

  • thin → determine species

FBC → thrombocytopenia, normocytic anaemia, normal WBC, reticulocytosis

Rapid diagnostic test (detect PfHRP2)

Tx: ACT (avoid in 1st trimester) or chloroquine