Iron, anemia and hepcidin in malaria.
Malaria and iron have a complex but important relationship. Plasmodium proliferation requires iron, both during the clinically silent liver stage of growth and in the disease-associated phase of erythrocyte infection. Precisely how the protozoan acquires its iron from its mammalian host remains uncl...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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