Imported chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium vivax in Singapore: case report and literature review

J Travel Med. 2010 Jan-Feb;17(1):69-71. doi: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2009.00376.x.

Abstract

Chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium vivax (CRPV) infection is emerging as a clinically significant problem. Detailed travel history is crucial to the management of imported malarial cases. We report a 58-year-old business traveler who returned from Indonesia and experienced relapse due to CRPV. The epidemiology and diagnostic challenges of CRPV for travel medicine clinicians are reviewed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antimalarials / administration & dosage*
  • Chloroquine / administration & dosage*
  • Drug Resistance, Microbial
  • Humans
  • Malaria, Vivax / diagnosis
  • Malaria, Vivax / drug therapy*
  • Male
  • Mefloquine / administration & dosage*
  • Middle Aged
  • Plasmodium vivax / drug effects*
  • Plasmodium vivax / isolation & purification
  • Singapore
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Antimalarials
  • Chloroquine
  • Mefloquine