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A mixed malaria infection: is Plasmodium vivax good for you?
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2009 Sep 7;
Authors: Whitehorn J, Coltart C, Manser D, Doherty T
We describe a case of mixed malaria infection in a returning traveller. We suggest that our patient had a chronic infection with Plasmodium vivax, which reduced the severity of an acute infection with P. falciparum-an example of cross-species immunity.
PMID: 19740502 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] [PubMed-Malaria]