Spontaneous splenic rupture in Plasmodium knowlesi malaria

• Main Authors: Chee, Yik Chang, Wei, Chiang Pui, Khamisah, Binti Abdul Kadir, Balbir, Singh
• Format: E-Article
• Language: English
• Published: BMC Publishing 2018
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/23522/1/Spontaneous%20splenic%20rupture%20in%20Plasmodium%20knowlesi%20malaria.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/23522/; https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-018-2600-2

Background: Plasmodium knowlesi, a malaria parasite typically found in long-tailed and pig-tailed macaques, is the most common cause of human malaria in Malaysian Borneo. Infections in humans result in a spectrum of disease, including fatal outcomes. Spontaneous splenic rupture is a rare, but severe...