Surface Area Loss and Increased Sphericity Account for the Splenic Entrapment of Subpopulations of Plasmodium falciparum Ring-Infected Erythrocytes

• Innocent Safeukui ,

  * E-mail: innocent.safeukui@nd.edu

  Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Immunologie Moléculaire des Parasites, Département de Parasitologie Mycologie, Paris, France, CNRS, URA2581, Paris, France, Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

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• Pierre A. Buffet,

  Affiliations INSERM - UPMC (Paris 6 University) UMRs945, Paris, France, AP-HP, Department of Parasitology, Pitié Salpétrière Hospital, Paris, France

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• Sylvie Perrot,

  Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Immunologie Moléculaire des Parasites, Département de Parasitologie Mycologie, Paris, France, CNRS, URA2581, Paris, France

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• Alain Sauvanet,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Beaujon Hospital, AP-HP, Clichy, France

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• Beatrice Aussilhou,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Beaujon Hospital, AP-HP, Clichy, France

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• Safi Dokmak,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Beaujon Hospital, AP-HP, Clichy, France

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• Anne Couvelard,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Beaujon Hospital, AP-HP, Clichy, France

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• Dominique Cazals Hatem,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Beaujon Hospital, AP-HP, Clichy, France

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• Narla Mohandas,

  Affiliation New York Blood Centre, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Peter H. David,

  Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Immunologie Moléculaire des Parasites, Département de Parasitologie Mycologie, Paris, France, CNRS, URA2581, Paris, France

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• Odile Mercereau-Puijalon,

  Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Immunologie Moléculaire des Parasites, Département de Parasitologie Mycologie, Paris, France, CNRS, URA2581, Paris, France

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• Geneviève Milon

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Immunophysiologie et Parasitisme, Département de Parasitologie Mycologie, Paris, France

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