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Stronger host response per parasitized erythrocyte in <i>Plasmodium vivax</i> or <i>ovale</i> than in <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> malaria

Christoph Josef Hemmer, Friedrich Georg Ernst Holst, Peter Kern, Collins Batsirai Chiwakata, Manfred Dietrich, Emil C. Reisinger

Tropical Medicine & International Health · 2006 · 100 citations · 33 references

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Abstract

The host response may reach full strength at lower parasitemia in Plasmodium vivax or ovale, than in P. falciparum malaria. With hyperparasitemia in P. falciparum malaria, the host response seems to be unable to control parasite multiplication.

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