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Spleen rupture in a case of untreated Plasmodium vivax infection

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We report the unique case of a 19-yearold nonimmune patient with Plasmodium vivax monoinfection, confirmed by PCR in the peripheral blood and in the spleen section, who was splenectomized due to spleen rupture two days prior to the diagnosis and treatment of the malarial infection. Microscopic analyses evidenced white pulp expansion and a diffuse hypercellularity in the splenic red pulp, with intense proliferating plasmablasts in the subcapsular and perivascular compartments as well as large numbers of intact P. vivax-infected reticulocytes in the cords, in the absence of other concomitant infectious diseases. To our knowledge, this is the first full detailed immunohistopathological characterization of a nontreated P. vivax-infected spleen.

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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012, vol. 6, num. 12, p. e1934

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cc-by (c) Machado Siqueira, André et al., 2012

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Articles publicats en revistes (Fonaments Clínics)

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Spleen rupture in a case of untreated Plasmodium vivax infection