Malaria, a difficult diagnosis in a febrile patient with sub-microscopic parasitaemia and polyclonal lymphocyte activation outside the endemic region, in Brazil

Malaria Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Brasil, Patrícia ^a,b   Costa, Anielle P ^a,b   Longo, Cecilia L ^a   Da Silva, Sidnei ^a,b   Ferreira Da Cruz, Maria F ^b   Daniel Ribeiro, Cláudio Tadeu ^b  

^a Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest; Fever of unknown origin; Malaria; PCR diagnosis; Polyclonal lymphocyte activation; Rio de Janeiro

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; PRIMAQUINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; BLOOD SMEAR; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; FEVER; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYCLONAL ACTIVATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; BRAZIL; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84887328382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-402     Document Type: Article

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