{"title":"Falciparum malaria presenting as psychosis.","authors":"A Sowunmi, J U Ohaeri, C O Falade","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 15-year-old male presented on three occasions with fever, aggressive behaviour, poor sleep and mixed affective and schizophreniform symptoms in association with falciparum malaria. The symptoms resolved promptly following anti-malarial treatment. Prophylaxis with proguanil prevented recurrence of the illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":76765,"journal":{"name":"Tropical and geographical medicine","volume":"47 5","pages":"218-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Tropical and geographical medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A 15-year-old male presented on three occasions with fever, aggressive behaviour, poor sleep and mixed affective and schizophreniform symptoms in association with falciparum malaria. The symptoms resolved promptly following anti-malarial treatment. Prophylaxis with proguanil prevented recurrence of the illness.
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