Polyneuropathy with autonomic involvement in Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

Malaria can cause neuropsychiatric manifestations1: a sequelae of cerebral malaria, predominant neuropsychiatric signs and symptoms without loss of consciousness during acute stage as a presenting feature and, as post-malaria neurological syndrome (PMNS). Only few case reports of peripheral neuropathy of Landry Guillain-Berre syndrome (GBS) type with and without autonomic involvement have been reported from India2,3 and Africa4.