Clinical manifestation of malaria in infancy in southern Thailand.

A retrospective study of malaria in infancy in Haadyai Hospital from August 1977 to July 1980 revealed a total number of 35 patients. Six infants were below the age of one month, the youngest being 16 days old. Fever was the most common feature at about 97 percent. Anaenia was found in about 91 percent. Splenomegaly and hepatomegaly were found about 74 percent. The other clinical features were diarrhea (20 percent), convulsion (20 percent), jaundice (11 percent), vomiting, drowsiness, coma, dyspnoea, irritability and refuse feeding. Plasmodium vivax was the causative agent in 60 percent and plasmodium falciparum was found in 40 percent.