Two cases of late Plasmodium ovale presentation in military personnel

Guillaume Mellon; Cécile Ficko; Marc Thellier; Eric Kendjo; Olivier Aoun; Dina Adriamanantena; Christophe Rapp; French National Reference Center for Imported Malaria Study Group

doi:10.1111/jtm.12077

Two cases of late Plasmodium ovale presentation in military personnel

J Travel Med. 2014 Jan-Feb;21(1):52-4. doi: 10.1111/jtm.12077. Epub 2013 Nov 11.

Authors

Guillaume Mellon¹, Cécile Ficko, Marc Thellier, Eric Kendjo, Olivier Aoun, Dina Adriamanantena, Christophe Rapp; French National Reference Center for Imported Malaria Study Group

Affiliation

¹ Service de Pathologie Infectieuse et Tropicale, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Bégin, Saint-Mandé, France.

PMID: 24205853
DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12077

Abstract

Only a few late cases of Plasmodium ovale presentation have been reported in literature. We describe two cases of late P. ovale presentation occurring in two French military personnel, 47 and 69 months, respectively, after a stay in Côte d'Ivoire and in the absence of new intercurrent malaria exposure.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Antimalarials / administration & dosage
Chloroquine / administration & dosage*
Cote d'Ivoire / epidemiology
France
Host-Parasite Interactions
Humans
Malaria* / blood
Malaria* / drug therapy
Malaria* / epidemiology
Malaria* / etiology
Malaria* / physiopathology
Male
Military Personnel
Plasmodium ovale* / drug effects
Plasmodium ovale* / isolation & purification
Plasmodium ovale* / physiology
Primaquine / administration & dosage*
Time Factors
Travel
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Antimalarials
Chloroquine
Primaquine