Abstract :
Disorders of hypopigmentation and immune deficiency are rarely seen .
We report here a case of severe malaria with hypopigmented hair and immunodeficiency in four and half year old female child.her hemoglobin was 4.5 gm% ,absolute neutrophil count less than 1000with plasmodium vivax on peripheral smear. S he also had recurrent admission and treatment for pneumonia.Her immunoglobulins showed low IgM and IgG. Hair microscopy showed heterogenous clumps of chromatinmore in cortex.There was no evidence of HLH.
Keyword :
case reports, immunedefiancy, hypopigmented hair, chromatin clumps.