PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Drouin, J.
AU  - Rock, G.
AU  - Jolly, E. E.
TI  - Plasmodium falciparum malaria mimicking autoimmune hemolytic anemia during pregnancy
DP  - 1985 Feb 01
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 265--267
VI  - 132
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/132/3/265.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/132/3/265.full
SO  - CMAJ1985 Feb 01; 132
AB  - A 30-year-old woman contracted Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the first trimester of her pregnancy while taking chloroquine for malaria prophylaxis. Her illness was characterized by hemolytic anemia with IgG1 coating of the surface of the erythrocytes and IgG3 in her serum. The hemolysis subsided following treatment of the malaria infection early in the third trimester. She delivered at term an infant who had hypoplasia of the right tibia and fibula and absence of the fifth ray of the right foot. The hemolytic process was attributed to the malaria infection, and the birth defect may have been related to the antimalarial therapy in the first trimester of pregnancy.