The liver-inherent immune system: its role against blood-stage malaria
The liver is well known as that organ which is obligately required for the intra-hepatocyte development of the pre-erythrocytic stages of the malaria-causative agent Plasmodium. However, largely neglected is the fact that the liver is also a central player of the host defense against the morbidity-...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-11-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00559/full |