Abstract
SYNOPSISClinical features seen in 55 patients with malaria admitted to the General Hospital, Port Moresby, during a 2 month period are discussed. Common presenting symptoms were fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain. The major physical findings were splenomegaly, hepatomegaly and pallor. Cerebral malaria occurred in 11 patients and blackwater fever in one. Multiple diseases were frequently found. Parasitaemia was confirmed in all cases; anaemia was common, and the over‐all mortality was 3.6%.Australian doctors should be conversant with this disease because of its importance in adjacent islands.
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