%0 Journal Article %T Plasmodium vivax malaria presenting with severe thrombocytopenia %A Makkar %A Ravinder Pal Singh %A Monga %A Surabhi Mukhopadhyay Amitabh %A Gupta %A Ajay Kr. %J Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases %D 2002 %I Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases %R 10.1590/S1413-86702002000500008 %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 8x109/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_abstract&pid=S1413-86702002000500008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en