Acute Psychosis due to severe malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax ? a case report.

Cerebral malaria can occur in up to one-third of patients [1] with severe malaria, and usually secondary to Plasmodium falciparum infection. Plasmodium vivax causing cerebral malaria in adult population is very rare. To our knowledge only 45 cases of central nervous system P. vivax malaria have been previously reported in the English language literature [2]. In this article, we report a unique case of P. vivax infection who presented with acute psychosis without any fever. - See more at: