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Review
. 2000 Feb 19;320(7233):490-4.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.490.

Tropical medicine

H W Murray  1 , J Pépin, T B Nutman, S L Hoffman, A A Mahmoud
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Review

Tropical medicine

H W Murray et al. BMJ. .
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Figure 1
Giemsa-stained splenic aspirate smear, showing numerous intracellular Leishmania donovani amastigotes within a parasitised splenic macrophage (arrows) from a patient with kala-azar
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Figure 2
Complex life cycle of plasmodium species that cause malaria, and immune responses being targeted by candidate vaccines against sporozoites (antibodies), infected hepatocytes (T cells, cytokines), extracellular blood stages (antibodies), intraerythrocytic stages (antibodies, cytokines, free radicals), and mosquito stage (antibodies)
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