India's first case of quadruple malaria reported in Chhattisgarh
Kalyan Ray, DH News Service, New Delhi, Sep 18 2017, 2:36 IST
India?s first case of quadruple malaria ? presence of four types of Plasmodium parasite in a single patient ? has been detected in a 12-year-old tribal kid in the Bastar forest of Chhattisgarh.
It?s not known whether the boy survived the infection as he left the hospital, against medical advice, without completing the treatment. Follow-up was not possible because of the inaccessibility to the area from where he came.
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His blood sample was examined at the malaria clinic of the National Institute for Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur ? one of the constituent laboratories of the Indian Council of Medical Research ? located in the clinic.
?We found four species of Plasmodium parasites ? P.falciparum, P.vivax, P.malariae and P.ovale ? in his blood. The dominant one was P.falciparum. To the best of our knowledge, this is India?s first case of quadruple malaria,? NIRTH scientist Praveen K Bharti, a member of the team that analysed the blood sample, told DH.
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