Reactivation of Plasmodium infection during a treatment with Infliximab: a case report

C. Haeseleer,Delphine Martiny,Y. Van Laethem,Brigitte Cantinieaux,Charlotte Martin

Reactivation of Plasmodium infection during a treatment with Infliximab: a case report

2019

C. Haeseleer
Delphine Martiny
Y. Van Laethem
Brigitte Cantinieaux
Charlotte Martin

Abstract We describe a symptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infection in a 29-year-old Guinean man receiving Infliximab since one year and without recent travel. The reactivation of submicroscopic malaria following the inhibition of TNF-alpha by infliximab is suspected.

Keywords:

Infliximab
Intensive care medicine
Medicine
Plasmodium falciparum infection
Virology
Immunology
Malaria

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