Wenisch C, Wenisch H, Bankl H C, Exner M, Graninger W, Looareesuwan S, Rumpold H
Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine I, University Hospital of Vienna, Austria.
Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 1996 Jan;3(1):132-4. doi: 10.1128/cdli.3.1.132-134.1996.
Four of 30 patients with Plasmodium falciparum infection in Bangkok, Thailand, were positive for anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies by indirect immunofluorescence 1 month after antimalarial therapy. No myeloperoxidase, proteinase 3, lactoferrin, or elastase reactivity was found. Since no evidence of vasculitis was seen in these patients, anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody production in malaria-infected susceptible patients probably represents a secondary response, indicating neutrophil activation.