TY - JOUR AB - <p>The spleen traps parasitized erythrocytes within its unique architecture, and this trapping function is modified during plasmodium infestation. Splenectomy dramatically exacerbates the course of experimental malarias probably through elimination of activated cordal macrophages responsible for killing intraerythrocytic plasmodia.</p> AU - DJ Wyler DA - 1983/8// IS - 2 VL - 16 PB - International Society of Lymphology and the University of Arizona Libraries PY - 1983 TI - SPLENIC FUNCTIONS IN MALARIA T2 - Lymphology UR - http://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/lymph/article/id/4079/ ER -