J Korean Pediatr Soc.  1998 Dec;41(12):1731-1735.

A Case of Imported Falciparum Malaria in a child

• Jung YH
• Hwang JH
• Kim HB
• Kho WG

Abstract

Despite on-going efforts to control malaria, the rate of malaria has not decreased throughout the world. It was believed that endemic malaria had been eradicated in Korea since the end of the 1970s, however it reemerged from 1993 and has been increasing ever since. Besides endemic malaria, imported malaria is also increasing in Korea as the number of overseas travellers and foreign workers increases. We discovered malaria in a two-year-old child who visited Sierra Leone with his missionary father. The patient contracted malaria despite chemo-prophylaxis with chloroquine and was diagnosed as falciparum malaria by blood smear examination and IFAT. He successfully recovered after administraion of quinine and clindamycin without complication. However, the malaria did not respond quickly to chloroqine and Fansidar but a drug resistence test was not performed.

Keyword

Imported malaria; Plasmodium falcifarum; Child

MeSH Terms

Child*
Chloroquine
Clindamycin
Fathers
Humans
Korea
Malaria*
Missions and Missionaries
Quinine
Sierra Leone
Chloroquine
Clindamycin
Quinine