Delay in diagnosis of imported Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases : Official Publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology
M ChalumeauDominique Gendrel

Abstract

The study reported here prospectively evaluated the time-to-diagnosis of imported Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children in seven French pediatric emergency departments during a 1-week period. For the 29 patients included, the mean patient, doctor and total delays were 3.1, 1.5 and 4.7 days, respectively. The late medical diagnosis for 11 patients was mainly due to the treating physician's failure to consider malaria, despite having been informed that the child had been in an endemic area, and erroneously making a diagnosis of viral infection. The five patients who were diagnosed correctly without delay had higher mean platelet counts than the others (206,000 vs 118,541/mm(3); p=0.008). The results indicate that greater awareness of the risk of malaria in returning travelers may help reduce delays in diagnosis and its consequences.

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