Article
Number and proportion of P. <i>falciparum</i> gametocytes vary from acute infection to chronic parasite carriage despite unaltered sexual commitment rate
2021-11-06
Abstract excerpt
Plasmodium falciparum infections persist through long dry seasons at low parasitaemia without causing malaria symptoms and thus remain untreated. In asymptomatic children, increased circulation of infected erythrocytes without adhering to the vascular endothelium is observed during the dry months, compared to febrile malaria in the wet season. However, alterations of parasite sexual commitment and gametocytogenesi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 70f5117c-f296-5104-b01c-e4ddaa76f471
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.11.05.467456
