Plasmodium falciparum malaria in an asplenic man
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 81 (2) , 233-234
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(87)90224-0
Abstract
An asplenic man with no prior exposure to malaria was infected with Plasmodium falciparum on a visit to Kenya. The peripheral blood showed a parasitaemia of 5% and displayed all developmental stages of the parasite, resembling the asplenic simian model of malaria.Keywords
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