Resistant plasmodium falciparum malaria [a case report and review]

Plasmodium Falciparum causes the manifestations' of malignant tertian malaria which carries a high mortality rate. Resistance of PI falciparum to Chloroquine is being increasingly reported from East and Equatorial Africa, and recently from Thailand. A case of cerebral malaria from Rawalpindi is described in which the protozoan was resistant to Chloroquine and the clinical manifestation and complications of falciparum malaria are reviewed