%0 Journal Article %T Plasmodium vivax malaria presenting with severe thrombocytopenia %A Makkar Ravinder Pal Singh %A Monga Surabhi Mukhopadhyay Amitabh %A Gupta Ajay Kr. %J Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases %D 2002 %I Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases %X Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria are endemic infections in India and are commonly associated with mild hematological abnormalities. Severe thrombocytopenia is common in isolated falciparum and mixed falciparum/vivax malaria, but is very rare in isolated P.vivax infection. We hereby report a case of severe thrombocytopenia (platelet count of 8x10(9)/L) in a case of vivax malaria. This is only the second case ever reported in the literature of such profound thrombocytopenia in a case of isolated P.vivax malaria. %K Plasmodium vivax %K malaria %K severe thrombocytopenia %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702002000500008