A Case of Cerebral Malaria: are we Alert to Detect?

dc.contributor.author	Pratheepan, G.J.
dc.contributor.author	Bodinayake, C.K.
dc.date.accessioned	2025-03-03T08:47:19Z
dc.date.available	2025-03-03T08:47:19Z
dc.date.issued	2009-07-29
dc.identifier.citation	Pratheepan, G. and Bodinayake, C. (2008) ‘A case of cerebral malaria: are we alert to detect?’, <i>Galle Medical Journal</i>, 13(1), p. 63-64. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4038/gmj.v13i1.903.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1391-7072
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.lib.ruh.ac.lk/handle/iruor/19225
dc.description.abstract	Malaria is an important treatable cause of fever. Cerebral malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum causes multisystem involvement leading to death. Though malaria was a common illness in Sri Lanka years back, the incidence is now very low. Total of 196 cases of malaria and 8 cases of cerebral malaria were reported in 2007 1. We report a case of cerebral malaria from Galle with many of its complications	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Galle Medical Association	en_US
dc.subject	Cerebral malaria	en_US
dc.subject	neutrophil leukocytosis	en_US
dc.subject	thrombocytopenia	en_US
dc.title	A Case of Cerebral Malaria: are we Alert to Detect?	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US