The Occurrence of Intravascular Agglutinations in Avian Malaria

4 December 1942

journal article
research article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 96 (2501) , 520-521
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.96.2501.520

Abstract

The circulation changes in canaries infected with Plasmodium cathemenum were studied by use of a quartz rod micro-illuminator at 96 X magnification. As the parasitic count rose, white cells stuck to the endothelium of the venules, followed by plasma leakage, then sticky clumps of red cells formed, transient thromboses occurred and the blood became progressively more sluggish. Larger numbers of thromboses occurred and death soon followed.