Autochthonous Case of Malaria Prediagnosed as Leukemia
Abstract
Malaria is a parasitic disease transmitted by infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. There are five species of Plasmodium species that can infect humans. Of these species, especially P.falciparum and P.vivax pose the greatest threat to human health. In the 2014 report of the World Health Organization, it was reported that there were no locally acquired cases of malaria in 16 countries including Türkiye. Malaria cases originating from outside the country and imported due to migration, travel and working abroad are reported as import cases. In this report, a case of non-imported malaria followed with a preliminary diagnosis of leukemia was presented. A 14-year-old female patient who was admitted to a health institution with complaints of high fever, headache, chills, nausea-vomiting, and diarrhea that had been going on for two weeks, was pre-diagnosed as leukemia and was referred to Manisa Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine, Hafsa Sultan Hospital, Department of Pediatric Hematology and after pancytopenia was detected in the complete blood count. The anamnesis of the patient revealed that she had no history of international travel and that she had been prescribed medications such as paracetamol, amoxicillin, and metoclopramide for flu-like complaints while working in the Southeastern Anatolia, Aegean, and Mediterranean Regions of Türkiye. Bone marrow aspiration was performed for the etiological examination of pancytopenia. Giemsa-stained blood smears, rapid diagnostics,…
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