Severe Plasmodium vivax malaria among sudanese children at New Halfa Hospital,Eastern Sudan

Background: there are few published reports on severe plasmodium vivax malaria in africa. methods: clinical pattern/manifestations of severe p. vivax were described in children admitted at new halfa hospital in sudan between september 2009-december 2011. results: eighteen children were admitted at the hospital during the study period with different manifestations of severe p. vivax malaria namely: severe anaemia (6,33.3%),jaundice (5,27.8%),thrombocytopenia (4,22.2%),hypotension (3,16.7%),cerebral malaria (2,11.1%),epistaxis (2,11.1%),renal impairment (1,5.5%),hypogylcaemia and more than one manifestation (5,27.8%). by day 2,all patients were asymptomatic,a parasitaemic and had started oral quinine and primaquine. there was no death among these patients conclusion: severe p. vivax malaria is an existing entity in eastern sudan. further studies are required to understand emergence of severe p. vivax malaria. © 2012 mahgoub et al.; licensee biomed central ltd.