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Iron, anemia and hepcidin in malaria

Malaria and iron have a complex but important relationship. Plasmodium proliferation requires iron, both during the clinically silent liver stage of growth and in the disease-associated phase of erythrocyte infection. Precisely how the protozoan acquires its iron from its mammalian host remains uncl...

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Autores principales: Spottiswoode, Natasha, Duffy, Patrick E., Drakesmith, Hal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4039013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24910614
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2014.00125