Differential diagnosis of malaria and hemolytic anemia

A correct diagnosis is the basis for a correct treatment. In clinical practice, it happens sometimes that the diagnosis seems in no doubt. However, experience shows that misdiagnosis is not uncommon. Even when it seems of a certainty. Malaria is a group of vector-borne infectious diseases transmitted to humans through the bites of female Anopheles mosquitoes, infected by parasitic protists of the genus Plasmodium, predominantly Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria is accompanied by fever, chills, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, and anemia. It is characterized by a chronic relapsing course. Hemolytic anemia is a group name for rare diseases, a common symptom of which is an increased destruction of red blood cells, causing, on the one hand, anemia and increased formation of erythrocyte decay products, and on the other hand, reactively enhanced erythropoiesis.