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Localized <i>Leishmania major</i> infection causes systemic iron deficiency that can be controlled by oral iron supplementation
2022-06-04
Abstract excerpt
Leishmania major (L. major) and its related parasitic species infection causes human cutaneous leishmaniasis that results into disfiguring skin lesion. Although L. major infection has been found to alter macrophage iron homeostasis we have limited understanding on whether it can also manipulate the same at systemic level. In fact, localized L. major infection found to promote iron deficiency anemia in children b...
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- Literature Corpus work
- abaa40fb-3758-58ac-9374-0580acc66a9f
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.06.03.494645
