Postmortem characterization of patients with clinical diagnosis of Plasmodium vivax malaria: to what extent does this parasite kill?

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Published in Clin Infect Dis on July 06, 2012

Authors

Marcus V G Lacerda1, Silvio C P Fragoso, Maria G C Alecrim, Márcia A A Alexandre, Belisa M L Magalhães, André M Siqueira, Luiz C L Ferreira, José R Araújo, Maria Paula G Mourão, Mireia Ferrer, Paola Castillo, Lorena Martin-Jaular, Carmen Fernandez-Becerra, Hernando del Portillo, Jaume Ordi, Pedro L Alonso, Quique Bassat

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratory of Malaria, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Av. Pedro Teixeira, 25, Manaus, Amazonas 69040-000, Brazil. marcuslacerda.br@gmail.com

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