A 12-year-old-female patient with fever after traveling to Peten, Guatemala

Malaria Plasmodium vivax Guatemala

Authors

  • Sergio Galdámez-Díaz
    chejogd17@gmail.com
    Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala, Guatemala., Guatemala
  • Christian Gebhardt-Quan Departamento Medicina Interna, Hospital Roosevelt, Guatemala, Guatemala., Guatemala
August 28, 2022
December 11, 2022

Plasmodium vivax is the malaria parasite with the largest geographic distribution, there is about 2.5 billion people at risk of contracting this infection, and the estimation of cases every year is 80 to 300 million of cases. Guatemala is