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The mother developed pregnancy-related immunodepression and varicella-zoster viral infection 9 days before natural delivery; therefore, the child was admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to administer specific varicella-zoster immunoglobulin prophylaxis and for clinical monitoring. During the NICU stay, the newborn presented a febrile syndrome with vomiting, anemia, and thrombocytopenia. A <jats:italic>P. vivax<\/jats:italic> severe malaria diagnosis was made by detecting trophozoites in the thick and thin blood smears. The infant was successfully treated with intravenous artesunate and clindamycin. Our experience suggests that malaria diagnostic tests need to be included in routine blood analyses in newborns with febrile syndrome from mothers with an epidemiologic link to malaria-endemic areas.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.18-0091","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,17]],"date-time":"2018-07-17T07:00:25Z","timestamp":1531810825000},"page":"620-622","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Case Report: Delayed Diagnosis of Congenital Malaria by Plasmodium vivax in a Newborn of an Eritrean Woman with Varicella Infection"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"99","author":[{"given":"Saba","family":"Gebremeskel Tekle","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Institute of Infectious Diseases IRCCS Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Angela","family":"Corpolongo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Institute of Infectious Diseases IRCCS Lazzaro Spallanzani, 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