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

• Glavni autori: Hong-Wei Zhang (Autor), San-Jin Li (Autor), Tao Hu (Autor), Yong-Min Yu (Autor), Cheng-Yun Yang (Autor), Rui-Min Zhou (Autor), Ying Liu (Autor), Jing Tang (Autor), Jing-Jing Wang (Autor), Xiu-Yun Wang (Autor), Yong-Xiang Sun (Autor), Zhan-Chun Feng (Autor), Bian-Li Xu (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: BMC, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract 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 r...