Plasmodium vivax Malaria–associated Acute Kidney Injury, India, 2010–2011

Abstract

Plasmodium vivax is causing increasingly more cases of severe malaria worldwide. Among 25 cases in India during 2010–2011, associated conditions were renal failure, thrombocytopenia, jaundice, severe anemia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, shock, cerebral malaria, hypoglycemia, and death. Further studies are needed to determine why P. vivax malaria is becoming more severe.

Keywords

• Plasmodium vivax
• acute kidney injury
• hemodialysis
• severe malaria
• neglected malaria parasite
• dispatch