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
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-55913842017-09-18 Malaria exflagellation in a human peripheral blood smear Arneth, Borros Keller, Christian Schaefer, Sylvia IDCases Case Illustrated 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. Elsevier 2017-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5591384/ /pubmed/28924557 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.08.010 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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