Malaria-Induced Immune Thrombocytopenia
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Vox Sanguinis
- Vol. 47 (1), 68-72
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1423-0410.1984.tb01563.x
Abstract
On return from Liberia, a previously healthy 36-yr-old man showed signs of malaria accompanied by severe hemolysis and slight thrombocytopenia. Evidence of a platelet-associated IgG being responsible for the thrombocytopenia was found, in as much as the direct platelet suspension immunofluorescence test and strongly positive, the indirect immunofluorescence test and tests for drug-dependent antibodies at the same time being negative. Autoimmunity may be a contributing mechanism for platelet destruction in acute malaria.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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