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

• Main Authors: Hong-Wei Zhang (Author), San-Jin Li (Author), Tao Hu (Author), Yong-Min Yu (Author), Cheng-Yun Yang (Author), Rui-Min Zhou (Author), Ying Liu (Author), Jing Tang (Author), Jing-Jing Wang (Author), Xiu-Yun Wang (Author), Yong-Xiang Sun (Author), Zhan-Chun Feng (Author), Bian-Li Xu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...