Where have all the parasites gone? Modelling early malaria parasite sequestration dynamics.

Traditional approaches to measuring the level of malaria infection involve counting the proportion of parasite-infected red blood cells (iRBC) in circulating blood, known as parasitaemia. However, iRBC can also accumulate within the microvasculature of tissues and organs, a process called sequestrat...

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Main Authors: Deborah Cromer, Shannon E Best, Christian Engwerda, Ashraful Haque, Miles Davenport
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3575381?pdf=render