Altered parasite life-cycle processes characterize Babesia divergens infection in human sickle cell anemia

Babesia divergens is an intra-erythrocytic parasite that causes malaria-like symptoms in infected people. As the erythrocyte provides the parasite with the infra-structure to grow and multiply, any perturbation to the cell should impact parasite viability. Support for this comes from the multitude o...

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Main Authors: Jeny R. Cursino-Santos, Manpreet Singh, Eric Senaldi, Deepa Manwani, Karina Yazdanbakhsh, Cheryl A. Lobo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ferrata Storti Foundation 2019-11-01
Series:Haematologica
Online Access:https://haematologica.org/article/view/9121