Spleen rupture in a case of untreated Plasmodium vivax infection

André Machado Siqueira; Belisa Maria Lopes Magalhães; Gisely Cardoso Melo; Mireia Ferrer; Paola Castillo; Lorena Martin-Jaular; Carmen Fernandez-Becerra; Jaume Ordi; Antonio Martinez; Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda; Hernando A del Portillo

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001934

Spleen rupture in a case of untreated Plasmodium vivax infection

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012;6(12):e1934. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001934. Epub 2012 Dec 13.

Authors

André Machado Siqueira¹, Belisa Maria Lopes Magalhães, Gisely Cardoso Melo, Mireia Ferrer, Paola Castillo, Lorena Martin-Jaular, Carmen Fernandez-Becerra, Jaume Ordi, Antonio Martinez, Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda, Hernando A del Portillo

Affiliation

¹ Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Blood / parasitology
Histocytochemistry
Humans
Immunohistochemistry
Malaria, Vivax / complications*
Male
Microscopy
Plasmodium vivax / genetics
Plasmodium vivax / isolation & purification*
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Rupture / diagnosis*
Rupture / pathology*
Spleen / parasitology
Spleen / pathology*
Young Adult

Grants and funding

This study was supported by research funding of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq grant n° 555666/2009-3); the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (grant agreement N° 242095); Fundación Privada CELLEX (Catalonia, Spain); and by the Ministerio Español de Ciencia e Innovación (SAF2009-07760), Spain. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.