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Severity of anaemia is associated with bone marrow haemozoin in children exposed to <i><scp>P</scp>lasmodium falciparum</i>
6 Jan 2014
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There are no large-scale ex vivo studies addressing the contribution of Plasmodium falciparum in the bone marrow to anaemia. The presence of malaria parasites and haemozoin were studied in bone marrows from 290 anaemic children attending a rural hospital in Mozambique. Peripheral blood infections were determined by microscopy and polymerase chain reactions. Bone marrow parasitaemia, haemozoin and...
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