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Ultrastructural analysis of fresh Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes and their cytoadherence to human leukocytes.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 May 1992
Ruangjirachuporn W, Afzelius B A, Helmby H, Hill A V, Greenwood B M, Carlson J, Berzins K, Perlmann P, Wahlgren M
Abstract excerpt
Sixty fresh Plasmodium falciparum isolates obtained from Gambian children with mild or cerebral malaria were investigated by transmission electron microscopy for the expression of knob-like protrusions (K+) on the surface of the infected erythrocytes. More than six-hundred infected erythrocytes were analyzed. Knob-forming parasites were present in all 60 isolates. Although knobless parasites (K-) were found in 25...
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