Volume 16, Number 10—October 2010
Dispatch
Severe Plasmodium vivax Malaria, Brazilian Amazon
Márcia A. Alexandre, Cynthia O. Ferreira, André M. Siqueira, Belisa L. Magalhães, Maria Paula G. Mourão, Marcus V. Lacerda
, and Maria das Graças C. Alecrim
, and Maria das Graças C. AlecrimTable 2
Laboratory characteristics of 17 hospitalized patients who had parasitologic and molecular diagnosis of Plasmodium vivax infection, Manaus, Brazil, 2001–2002*
| Patient no. | No. asexual parasites/mm3 | Hemoglobin, g/dL | Total leukocyte count, cells/mm3 | Thrombocytes, cells/mm3 | Serum creatinine, mg/dL | Serum bilirubin, total/conjugated, mg/dL | Serum AST, IU/L | Serum ALT, IU/L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,566 | 3.6 | 9,700 | 97,000 | 0.5 | 1.1/0.4 | 50 | 30 |
| 2 | 28,847 | 4.5 | 9,100 | 30,000 | 0.6 | 1.3/0.5 | 40 | 34 |
| 3 | 1,100 | 9.5 | 5,500 | 143,000 | 0.4 | 6.6/5.6 | 760 | 1,233 |
| 4 | 21,406 | 14.6 | 13,900 | 33,000 | 3.0 | 2.58/1.16 | 113 | 108 |
| 5 | 1,862 | 3.1 | 19,000 | 99,000 | 0.7 | 1.1/0.8 | 23 | 56 |
| 6 | 1,206 | 11.5 | 6,700 | 27,000 | 1.2 | 13.8/10.6 | 76 | 60 |
| 7 | 2,695 | 12.4 | 4,900 | 76,000 | 3.7 | 1.3/0.5 | 33 | 33 |
| 8 | 2,055 | 3.8 | 13,700 | 106,000 | 0.6 | 4.3/0.73 | 190 | 37 |
| 9 | 3,844 | 4.5 | 6,200 | 171,000 | 0.3 | 1.36/0.21 | 58 | 25 |
| 10 | 680 | 9.6 | 13,600 | 275,000 | 0.1 | 6.4/4.8 | 72 | 50 |
| 11 | 5,452 | 6.5 | 4,700 | 107,000 | 1.7 | 2.5/1.6 | 57 | 56 |
| 12 | 5,047 | 11.5 | 4,900 | 35,000 | 0.9 | 6.3/5.1 | 49 | 34 |
| 13 | 11,954 | 9.4 | 8,600 | 48,000 | 1.0 | 5.4/5.2 | 45 | 43 |
| 14 | 9,360 | 12.0 | 5,200 | 27,000 | 1.2 | 9.2/7.1 | 57 | 53 |
| 15 | 4,524 | 8.8 | 5,800 | 29,000 | 1.0 | 5.6/4.8 | 33 | 30 |
| 16 | 5,160 | 10.7 | 6,300 | 36,000 | 2.3 | 7.8/6.5 | 35 | 70 |
| 17 | 24,550 | 10.3 | 5,000 | 24,000 | 1.4 | 7.1/4.6 | 39 | 55 |
*WHO, World Health Organization; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; ALT, alanine aminotransferase.
