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A 34-year-old man died in a comatose state. According to his family after a business trip to an African country he developed periodical jaundice attacks. Autopsy shows the following: dense enlarged spleen with slate-black pulp; enlarged plethoric liver, gray-black on section; cerebral gray matter is brown-gray; cerebral white matter contains numerous small hemorrhages. What infectious disease can be suspected?

Answer options

  1. Meningococcemia
  2. Prion infection
  3. Generalized herpetic infection
  4. Malaria
  5. Generalized cryptococcosis
Correct answer

Malaria

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