Malaria exflagellation in a human peripheral blood smear

A clinical case is presented here of a patient from Afganistan. We found intraerythrocytic parasites consistent with malaria vivax. Additionally extraerythrocytic structures were seen. First a co-infection with Borrelia recurrentis was discussed later these structures were identified as male plasmod...

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Autores principales: Arneth, Borros, Keller, Christian, Schaefer, Sylvia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
Materias:
Case Illustrated
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5591384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28924557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.08.010
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Sumario:A clinical case is presented here of a patient from Afganistan. We found intraerythrocytic parasites consistent with malaria vivax. Additionally extraerythrocytic structures were seen. First a co-infection with Borrelia recurrentis was discussed later these structures were identified as male plasmodia microgametes resulting from exflagellation.

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