A Japanese man with malaria tests negative for fever after spending 6 months in rural Kenya

Takashi Sugimoto; Kensuke Takahashi; Kosuke Matsui; Masahito Asada; Osamu Kaneko; Koya Ariyoshi

doi:10.1186/s41182-020-00220-z

A Japanese man with malaria tests negative for fever after spending 6 months in rural Kenya

Trop Med Health. 2020 Jun 24:48:52. doi: 10.1186/s41182-020-00220-z. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Takashi Sugimoto¹, Kensuke Takahashi^{1

2}, Kosuke Matsui¹, Masahito Asada³, Osamu Kaneko³, Koya Ariyoshi^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
² Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
³ Department of Protozoology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.

Abstract

A previously healthy Japanese man in his fifties was admitted to our hospital because of a recurrent fever after returning from Kenya and Madagascar. He was ambulant with a body temperature of 36.6 °C. His physical examination revealed normal except for tender hepatomegaly. The blood test results showed no apparent abnormality except thrombocytopenia and mild liver dysfunction. The rapid diagnostic test and Giemsa-stained blood film were repeatedly negative for malaria. Computed tomography scans of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis revealed no significantly abnormal findings.

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