Prolonged parasite clearance in a Chinese splenectomized patient with falciparum malaria imported from Nigeria

BACKGROUND: The spleen plays a pivotal role in the rapid clearance of parasitized red blood cells in patients with falciparum malaria after artemisinin treatment. Prolonged parasite clearance can be found in patients who have had a splenectomy, or those with hemoglobin abnormalities and/or reduced i...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Hong-Wei, Li, San-Jin, Hu, Tao, Yu, Yong-Min, Yang, Cheng-Yun, Zhou, Rui-Min, Liu, Ying, Tang, Jing, Wang, Jing-Jing, Wang, Xiu-Yun, Sun, Yong-Xiang, Feng, Zhan-Chun, Xu, Bian-Li
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5379605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28372588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-017-0259-5

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