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Abstract
Malaria tropica is almost exclusively diagnosed within two months after returning from an endemic country. We present here a male patient with severe P. falciparum malaria diagnosed 2.5 years after returning
from Burkina-Faso. We speculate that our patient was
chronically infected with PF malaria for more than 2 years, with an undetectable parasite index and without
symptoms. Because of waning immunity clinically overt
PF malaria was able to develop. This case illustrates the
importance of malaria suspicion as a cause of illness in
immigrants from malaria-endemic countries. Even when
these immigrants did not travel for a long time, malaria
should be considered in patients with typical symptoms.
