Malaria is one of the major causes of disease for people living in tropical and subtropical areas. Infection with malaria parasites may result in a wide variety of symptoms, ranging from absent or very mild symptoms to severe disease and even death. Low platelets are common in the laboratory feature among patients with malaria. Causes of Low platelets in malaria till now it not clarified. In this mini review we try to find the correlation between malaria and thrombocytopenia. Malaria is associated with different degrees of low platelet count and the relationship between low platelets and malaria till now not sufficiently understood till now.
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