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Article: Malaria parasite in lymph nodes.(research on malaria)(Brief article)
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- Medical Laboratory Observer
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Malaria parasite in lymph nodes. Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Australia reported in Nature Medicine on Jan. 22, that up to now, it was believed that the world's deadliest malaria parasite--Plasmodium falciparum--ended up in the liver, although both blood and lymphatic vessels take them up. Nobody had yet proposed that P falciparum actually might stop in the lymph nodes and develop there. Since only fully developed parasites can infect red blood cells and cause malaria, the lymph-node parasites probably do not contribute to the appearance of malaria symptoms. But, even partially developed or destroyed parasites could significantly affect how ...