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Purpura fulminans in a patient with malaria Volume 10, numéro 8, December 2000

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University of Miami School of Medicine Department of Dermatology, PO Box 016250 (r-250), Miami, FL 33101, USA.
  • Page(s) : 617-9
  • Année de parution : 2000

Malaria is a mosquito-born disease caused by the protozoan genus Plasmodium. This disease is characterized by a febrile systemic illness with cyclic fevers as the hallmark. Other clinical signs and symptoms include tachycardia, hypotension, headache, backache, vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain and altered consciousness. Cutaneous manifestations although noted, are rarely reported and have included jaundice [1], petechiae [1], vasculitis [2], [...]