Chronic malaria and hyper-reactive malarial splenomegaly: a retrospective study on the largest series observed in a non-endemic country

BACKGROUND: Chronic malaria is usually defined as a long-term malarial infection in semi-immune subjects, usually without fever or other acute symptoms. The untreated infection may evolve to hyper-reactive malarial splenomegaly (HMS), a life-threatening complication. This paper describes the largest...

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Autores principales: Bisoffi, Zeno, Leoni, Stefania, Angheben, Andrea, Beltrame, Anna, Eseme, Franklyn Esoka, Gobbi, Federico, Lodesani, Claudia, Marocco, Stefania, Buonfrate, Dora
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4839070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27098596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1274-x

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