Bone marrow reticulocytes: a Plasmodium vivax affair?
- PMID: 25700424
- DOI: 10.1182/blood-2014-12-614123
Bone marrow reticulocytes: a Plasmodium vivax affair?
Abstract
In this issue of Blood, Malleret and colleagues show the importance of the bone marrow in Plasmodium vivax biology by proving the preferential infection of young reticulocytes (generally restricted to the bone marrow), which then experience accelerated maturation postinvasion.
Comment on
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Plasmodium vivax: restricted tropism and rapid remodeling of CD71-positive reticulocytes.Blood. 2015 Feb 19;125(8):1314-24. doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-08-596015. Epub 2014 Nov 20. Blood. 2015. PMID: 25414440 Free PMC article.

