Absence of erythrocyte sequestration and lack of multicopy gene family expression in Plasmodium falciparum from a splenectomized malaria patient

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Bachmann, Anna ^a   Esser, Claudia ^a   Petter, Michaela ^a,c   Predehl, Sabine ^a   von Kalckreuth, Vera ^b,d   Schmiedel, Stefan ^b   Bruchhaus, Iris ^a   Tannich, Egbert ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD63 ANTIGEN; CREATININE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MAURER CLEFTS 2 TRANSMEMBRANE; QUININE; REPETITIVE INTERSPERSED FAMILY; SUUBTELOMERE VARIABLE OPEN READING FRAME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; PRIMER DNA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BALCK AFRICAN; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE NUMBER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PALLOR; PANCYTOPENIA; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALARIA; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; MALARIA; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 70449393982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007459     Document Type: Article

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