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To the Editor: Chadee et al. (June 22 issue)¹ describe a 70-year-old Trinidadian man with symptomatic reactivation of Plasmodium malariae infection seven days after neurosurgery. Their conclusion is that the infection was reactivated "after decades of latency," given that malaria was officially eradicated in Trinidad in 1965 and that the patient denied having traveled to a country where malaria was endemic.

Yet a recent report by the same lead author of reemergence of P. malariae infection in Trinidad suggests a more logical explanation for this case.² From 1994 to 1996, 22 people from 12 different areas of Trinidad had blood . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Reactivation of Plasmodium malariae Infection in a Trinidadian Man after Neurosurgery
Chadee D. D., Tilluckdharry C. C., Maharaj P., Sinanan C.
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N Engl J Med 2000; 342:1924, Jun 22, 2000. Correspondence

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