Severe Plasmodium vivax Malaria with Lupus-Mimicking Autoantibodies: A Case Report

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> <italic>Plasmodium vivax</italic> infection can present with severe multisystem involvement that overlaps clinically with systemic autoimmune disease. Infection-associated autoantibody production may further complicate diagnostic interpretation. A 20-year-old man from southeastern Iran presented with one week of high-grade fever with shaking chills, abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiti...

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• Arthritis
• Autoimmune Diseases
• Autoimmunity
• Behcet Syndrome
• Colitis
• Familial Mediterranean Fever
• NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Protein
• Pyrin

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Literature Corpus work

1157313a-fb98-55eb-9b6b-55c706fe7f19

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-9585631/v1