CEREBELLAR SYNDROME AND MALARIA

Contrary to the encephalopathy of a severe case of P. falciparum malar ia, cerebellar syndrome occuring after a malaria episode is infrequent . The authors report a case in a 31 years old comorean woman returning from the Comores where she had been staying without correct malaria c hemoprophylaxis by chloroquine. As previously reported, the cerebellar syndrome occurred following an attack of malaria and improved afterwa rds, The physiopathology is different from those of cerebral malaria a nd seems involved a specific cellular immune response in cerebellum. N evertheless, the hypothesis of a late neurotropic virus reactivated by malaria cannot be excluded.