Coinfection of Malaria, Parvovirus, Epstein-Barr Virus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, and Lyme Disease in a Returning Traveller: A Case Report
Sadia Shoaib, Mahmoud A Mohamed, Saddam H Abbasi, Momina Javed, Kashif Shaikh, Rifat Alam, Aniqua Tareen · 2026
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Sadia Shoaib and co-authors describe a 2026 case of a returning traveller carrying five infections at once. Their patient was a 36-year-old woman who came home from Ghana with fever, jaundice. Her blood breaking down, a combination that at first pointed to malaria alone.
Testing revealed concurrent infection with Plasmodium falciparum malaria, parvovirus B19, Epstein-Barr virus, respiratory syncytial virus, and Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease bacterium. Her course grew complicated: profound haemolysis, acute kidney injury, and fever that persisted despite antimalarial treatment. The authors use the case to show how overlapping infections in travellers strain diagnosis and therapy, how several microbes can drive blood breakdown jointly. Why a multidisciplinary team approach matters when the first treatment does not settle the fever.
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| CREATOR | Sadia Shoaib, Mahmoud A Mohamed, Saddam H Abbasi, Momina Javed, Kashif Shaikh, Rifat Alam, Aniqua Tareen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 18079 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |