Hemophagocytosis induced by Leishmania donovani infection is beneficial to parasite survival within macrophages

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is caused by parasitic protozoa of the genus Leishmania and is characterized by clinical manifestations such as fever, hepatosplenomegaly and anemia. Hemophagocytosis, the phenomenon of phagocytosis of blood cells by macrophages, is found in VL patients. In a previous stu...

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Published in:PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Main Authors: Morimoto, Ayako, Uchida, Kazuyuki, Chambers, James K., Sato, Kai, Hong, Jing, Sanjoba, Chizu, Matsumoto, Yoshitsugu, Yamagishi, Junya, Goto, Yasuyuki
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6886864/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31738750
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007816
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