Postmortem characterization of patients with clinical diagnosis of plasmodium vivax malaria: To what extent does this parasite kill?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Lacerda, Marcus V G ^a,b,c   Fragoso, Silvio C P ^a,b   Alecrim, Maria G C ^a,b,c   Alexandre, Márcia A A ^a,b,c   Magalhães, Belisa M L ^a,b   Siqueira, André M ^a,b   Ferreira, Luiz C L ^a,b   Araújo, José R ^a   Mourão, Maria Paula G ^a,b,c   Ferrer, Mireia ^d   Castillo, Paola ^e   Martin Jaular, Lorena ^d   Fernandez Becerra, Carmen ^d   Del Portillo, Hernando ^d,e   Ordi, Jaume ^d,e   Alonso, Pedro L ^d   Bassat, Quique ^d  

^a FUNDAÇÃO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL DR HEITOR VIEIRA DOURADO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NILTON LINS   (Brazil)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAZIL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG CAPILLARY; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG SEQUESTRATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITEMIA; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLEEN; SPLEEN RUPTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CHILD; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PULMONARY EDEMA; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84866675144     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis615     Document Type: Article

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