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Post-malaria delayed cerebellar ataxia in a traveller

Published:2024-07-02 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1195-1982
Container-title:Journal of Travel Medicine
language:en
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Author:

Davoli Caterina¹²,Sponga Pietro³,Angheben Andrea⁴^ORCID,Gobbi Federico G¹²⁴

Affiliation:

1. Unit of Infectious and Tropical Diseases , Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, , Brescia 25123 , Italy

2. University of Brescia and ASST ‘Spedali Civili di Brescia , Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, , Brescia 25123 , Italy

3. Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Careggi University Hospital , Florence 50134 , Italy

4. Department of Infectious Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria hospital , Via Sempreboni 5, 37024 Negrar, Verona , Italy

Abstract

Highlight An Italian traveller returning from Kenya was diagnosed and treated for malaria. Fourteen days later, he developed cerebellar symptoms and was diagnosed with Delayed Cerebellar Ataxia (DCA), a rare, self- limiting post-malarial neurological complication with a favourable prognosis that may appear after effectively treated malaria.

Funder

Italian Ministry of Health

IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital – Ricerca Corrente - Linea 1

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Link

https://academic.oup.com/jtm/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/jtm/taae083/58365786/taae083.pdf

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