Reticulocytes in peripheral blood of mice infected with Trypanosoma brucei: dramatic decrease of reticulocytes during primary wave of parasitemia.
Infection of mice with rapidly proliferating trypanosomes that killed the mice in the first or second wave of parasitemia led to a dramatic decrease of immature erythrocytes in the peripheral blood during the primary wave of parasitemia. Trypanosome variants producing lower first waves of parasitemia, and/or less rapid deaths, caused a variable, on the average small, decrease of immature erythrocytes. Trypanosome variants causing rapidly lethal infections killed the mice before a decrease of immature erythrocytes became apparent.
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Abteilung für Pathologie, Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Schiffs- und Tropenkrankheiten, Hamburg.
D000818:Animals; D004906:Erythrocyte Count; D005260:Female; D051379:Mice; D012156:Reticulocytes; D014346:Trypanosoma brucei brucei; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000097:blood*