Spleen Rupture in a Case of Untreated Plasmodium vivax Infection

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Machado Siqueira, André ^a,b   Lopes Magalhães, Belisa Maria ^a,b   Cardoso Melo, Gisely ^a,b   Ferrer, Mireia ^c   Castillo, Paola ^d   Martin Jaular, Lorena ^c   Fernandez Becerra, Carmen ^c   Ordi, Jaume ^d   Martinez, Antonio ^d   Lacerda, Marcus Vinícius Guimarães ^a,b   del Portillo, Hernando A ^c,e  

^a Fundacao de Medicina Tropical Dr Heitor Vieira Dourado   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Laboratory of Pathology   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; PRIMAQUINE;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYALGIA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

BLOOD; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUPTURE; SPLEEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872048785     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001934     Document Type: Article

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