| malaria at san lazaro hospital, manila, philippines, 1979-1981. | results are presented from the 1,000 slide-confirmed malaria cases seen during the period august 1979-september 1981 at san lazaro hospital, in manila, philippines; 56% were caused by plasmodium falciparum, 38% by p. vivax, 6% were mixed infections, and 0.1% by p. malariae. the overall case fatality rate was 1%, all due to p. falciparum. cerebral involvement occurred in 7% and the case fatality rate was 20% compared to a case fatality rate of 0.2% among p. falciparum cases without cerebral invol ... | 1983 | 6340537 |