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- Title
Blackwater Fever in Children, Burundi.
- Authors
Gobbi, Federico; Audagnotto, Sabrina; Trentini, Laura; Nkurunziza, Innocent; Corachan, Manuel; Di Perri, Giovanni
- Abstract
Blackwater fever is characterized by acute intravascular hemolysis with hemoglobinuria in patients with Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Its pathogenesis and management are still debated. Nine cases of this syndrome occurred in 2003 at Kiremba Hospital in Burundi in children receiving multiple quinine treatments.
- Subjects
BURUNDI; BLACKWATER fever; HEMOLYSIS &; hemolysins; HEMOGLOBINURIA; PLASMODIUM falciparum; QUININE; PATIENTS; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005, Vol 11, Issue 7, p1118
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1107.041237