FALCIPARUM-MALARIA PRESENTING AS PSYCHOSIS

Authors
SOWUNMI A OHAERI JU FALADE CO
Citation
A. Sowunmi et al., FALCIPARUM-MALARIA PRESENTING AS PSYCHOSIS, Tropical and geographical medicine, 47(5), 1995, pp. 218-219
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Tropical Medicine","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Tropical and geographical medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
00413232
Volume
47
Issue
5
Year of publication
1995
Pages
218 - 219
Database
ISI
SICI code
0041-3232(1995)47:5<218:FPAP>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
A 15 year-old male presented on three occasions with fever, aggressive behaviour, poor sleep acid mixed affective and schizophreniform sympt oms in association with falciparum malaria, The symptoms resolved prom ptly following antimalarial treatment. Prophylaxis with proguanil prev ented recurrence of the illness.