Plasmodium vivax infection compromises reticulocyte stability

During Plasmodium intra-erythrocytic developmental, parasites compromise the structural integrity of host red-blood cells. Here, Clark et al. develop a flow cytometric osmotic stability assay to show that P. vivax infection destabilizes host reticulocytes, which are less stable than P. falciparum-in...

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Main Authors: Martha A. Clark, Usheer Kanjee, Gabriel W. Rangel, Laura Chery, Anjali Mascarenhas, Edwin Gomes, Pradipsinh K. Rathod, Carlo Brugnara, Marcelo U. Ferreira, Manoj T. Duraisingh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21886-x