Diagnostic challenges of prolonged post-treatment clearance of Plasmodium nucleic acids in a pre-transplant autosplenectomized patient with sickle cell disease

BACKGROUND: Autosplenectomy, as a result of sickle cell disease, is an important risk factor for severe malaria. While molecular methods are helpful in providing rapid and accurate infection detection and species identification, the effect of hyposplenism on result interpretation during the course o...

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Autores principales: Luethy, Paul M., Murphy, Sean C., Seilie, Annette M., Xie, Yingda L., Lau, Chuen-Yen, Tisdale, John F., Hsieh, Matthew M., Reinhardt, Jessica L., Lau, Anna F., Fahle, Gary A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29321025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-017-2152-x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29321025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-017-2152-x

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