[PDF][PDF] Demonstration of a persisting exo-erythrocytic cycle in Plasmodium cynomolgi and its bearing on the production of relapses
HE Shortt, PCC Garnham - Bulletin of the World Health …, 2000 - SciELO Public Health
The first of these facts is that periods of patent infection accompanied by the demonstrable
presence of parasites in the peripheral blood are often succeeded by more or less
prolonged periods when no such parasitaemia can be demonstrated. This condition is
described as latent malaria, and it may supervene in the natural course of the disease or
may be produced artificially by the use of antimalarial therapy which destroys the
erythrocytic infection. Another fact is that such relapses are often precipitated by any …
presence of parasites in the peripheral blood are often succeeded by more or less
prolonged periods when no such parasitaemia can be demonstrated. This condition is
described as latent malaria, and it may supervene in the natural course of the disease or
may be produced artificially by the use of antimalarial therapy which destroys the
erythrocytic infection. Another fact is that such relapses are often precipitated by any …