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Insights into Imaging
Fig. 1 | Insights into Imaging

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From: Unexpected hosts: imaging parasitic diseases

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32-year-old patient, recently travelling from Cameroon and with previous history of malaria, presenting with fever, chills, generalised abdominal pain, and myalgia. The image of an abdominal US scan depicts splenomegaly of 17 cm. Plasmodium falciparum was detected in blood exams (the parasite was seen in thick blood smears, and antigens were also positive)

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