Chronic malaria revealed by a new fluorescence pattern on the antinuclear autoantibodies test.

BACKGROUND: Several clinical forms of malaria such as chronic carriage, gestational malaria or hyper-reactive malarial splenomegaly may follow a cryptic evolution with afebrile chronic fatigue sometimes accompanied by anemia and/or splenomegaly. Conventional parasitological tests are often negative...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Hommel, Jean-Luc Charuel, Stéphane Jaureguiberry, Laurent Arnaud, Regis Courtin, Petra Kassab, Virginie Prendki, Luc Paris, Pascale Ghillani-Dalbin, Marc Thellier, Eric Caumes, Zahir Amoura, Dominique Mazier, Lucile Musset, Pierre Buffet, Makoto Miyara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3923801?pdf=render