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Severe malaria - a case of fatal Plasmodium knowlesi infection with post-mortem findings: a case report

BACKGROUND: Zoonotic malaria caused by Plasmodium knowlesi is an important, but newly recognized, human pathogen. For the first time, post-mortem findings from a fatal case of knowlesi malaria are reported here. CASE PRESENTATION: A formerly healthy 40 year-old male became symptomatic 10 days after...

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Autores principales: Cox-Singh, Janet, Hiu, Jessie, Lucas, Sebastian B, Divis, Paul C, Zulkarnaen, Mohammad, Chandran, Patricia, Wong, Kum T, Adem, Patricia, Zaki, Sherif R, Singh, Balbir, Krishna, Sanjeev
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2818646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20064229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-10