Severe malaria - a case of fatal Plasmodium knowlesi infection with post-mortem findings: a case report
Open Access
- 11 January 2010
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Nature in Malaria Journal
- Vol. 9 (1) , 10
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-10
Abstract
Zoonotic malaria caused by Plasmodium knowlesi is an important, but newly recognized, human pathogen. For the first time, post-mortem findings from a fatal case of knowlesi malaria are reported here.Keywords
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